As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it supposedly shows a critical view of the October Revolution, he decides to smuggle several copies of the manuscript out of the country. It is first published in 1957 in Italia and the author receives the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which has consequences.

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious hi...

A fascinating journey through the life of Israeli artist Dani Karavan, an irreverent and charismatic...

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is publ...

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind...

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her...

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who...

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A documentary produced by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that covers the histor...
Documentary about belgian actor and director Bouli Lanners

Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who cons...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerg...

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S...