An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only 26 years old.
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...
For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a c...
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By th...
Jesus Was a Commie presents modern society with questions and leads the audience on a dialectical jo...
Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an inte...
With an original staging of text and music, Orlando follows the trail of one of the greatest compose...
With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes...
Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agen...
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S...
Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...
Trailblazing double bassist Orin O'Brien never wanted the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hire...
Biography of a star and figure study : This fascinating portrait is for anyone who wants to know mor...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ...
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After...
The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84), Olympic sw...
The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discove...
Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Ital...