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...

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

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...

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...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

A film about the cultural evolution of the Sydney beach side suburb of Maroubra and the social strug...

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Stre...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of severa...

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...