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.
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering h...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the hars...
A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of ...
A lonely house-wife’s plan to end it all takes an unexpected turn when her last hurrah begins a radi...
A female writer of popular thrillers decides that it is time to kill off one of her characters, a se...
A walk through the life and career of the legendary French photojournalist Christine Spengler, known...
The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaug...
The story of the Bugattis of Milan and Molsheim, the eccentric family behind the brand: Carlo, the p...
A gentle portrait of the mythical Spanish actor Arturo Fernández (1929-2019) in the hour of his pass...
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus (1935-2021).
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (198...
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole...
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close t...
The Smurfs were created in 1958 by the Belgian comic author Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992) and t...
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...