Historian Lucy Worsley visits the places and houses in England where Jane Austen spent time and which served as inspiration for the settings of her novels.

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-kno...

C.S. Lewis's biographer A.N. Wilson goes in search of the man behind Narnia, a highly secretive man ...

Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of A...
Short documentary on the screen depiction and public reception of fictional Chinese-American detecti...

Emmy Award-winning chronicle of the history of Orchard House, the home in Concord, Massachusetts whe...

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her...

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman....

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the...
In the early days of World War II, two Jewish brothers lost their parents during the Nazi invasion o...

An intimate collection of highlights, high-jinx, and memories spanning the five years of magic that ...
This poetic story-documentary shows the death of a tradition as a man reflects on a certain spring o...

The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1958), just like...
2008 Nobel Prize nominee, Irena Sendler, saved 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War...

As Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger wanted to lead the Church back to its former strength, but in...

An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth.
A look at the methane gas ships that come to the UK from the Sahara Desert.

Despite a war raging close by, mud treatments and electroshock therapies continue at Kuyalnik Sanato...