A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and for bringing an end to apartheid. But this film also sheds light on the little-known early period of Mandela's life.
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joy...
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher a...
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Ra...
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-ba...
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...
The tortured life of Paul Morphy (1850s New Orleans chess prodigy) is examined.
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
Extraordinary Commissar Pyotr Kobozev arrives in Soviet Turkestan on Lenin's personal order. He will...
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to impr...
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prison...
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...