From 1929 to 1939 Edgar Feuchtwanger lived across the street from Adolf Hitler in Munich Germany From his bedroom the young Jewish boy often viewed the Fuumlhrer just across the avenue A schoolboy in Munich at the time Edgar witnessed the rise of Nazism firsthand sharing in the fear and dread felt by all German Jews witnessing the unstoppable ascent of a madman and the start of World War II

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

A documentary portrait of a legendary Czech jockey, Josef Vána, reveals his inner world of thoughts....

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

Svitlana, a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, examines the colonised part of her consciousness and tries t...

Looney Tunes Friz Freleng appears in interview segments in this excellent documentary, which spends ...

How many working class Balmain boys grow up to be showgirls? Not just any showgirl but a household n...

Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Ma...
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

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This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1...

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous p...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...