A wilfully offensive band, The Mentors gained infamy for performing in black executioner hoods and spewing cartoonishly racist, homophobic and misogynistic lyrics in the 1980s and ‘90s—but was their use of shock meant to propagate hate or confront it?
Glamorously eccentric and enigmatic Theremin master Armen Ra recounts his dynamic journey in this li...
On the night of October 30, 1993, River Phoenix is set to play with his band at the Viper Room on Su...
It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of...
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entert...
A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children tells the inspiring story of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, ...
After almost thirty years of his career, the musician Fran Nixon joins film director David Trueba fo...
Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated th...
A deeply human portrait of a boxer with the heart of a lion who refused to give up, in and outside o...
Up until the end of her life, Beatrice Wood continued to influence younger artists with her definiti...
The work and unexplained death of Michael Ventris, the English architect, classicist, and philologis...
Co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Watson is part pirate, part philosophe...
Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social jus...
Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD, then worked for decades counseling drug abusers. Dock's soulf...
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her inte...
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of ...
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the li...