British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss Marple, are known the world over. But who is the woman behind her bestsellers? A biographical search for clues, the unraveling of an iridescent personality whose existence and works were shaped by the tragic history of the 20th century: the eventful life of the Queen of Crime.

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...

The film focuses on the exciting life journey of Swiss writer Katharina Zimmermann. She follows her ...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from ...

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomein...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...

Eccentric and provocative, Lady Gaga is undoubtedly the greatest pop diva. The one who is actually c...

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he und...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Tex...

A portrait of the masterful author whose novels were adapted into the classics 'The Birds,' 'Jamaica...

The personal life and professional career of music superstar Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, universal...