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...
When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a ...
Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English p...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By th...
A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a lo...
A fascinating journey through the life of Israeli artist Dani Karavan, an irreverent and charismatic...
The day after Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in Literature, a talk was held at Kawabata's res...
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces ...
Trailblazing double bassist Orin O'Brien never wanted the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hire...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84), Olympic sw...
The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discove...
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday ...
With an original staging of text and music, Orlando follows the trail of one of the greatest compose...
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...