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.
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic...
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...
Italy, WWII. After his anti-fascist mother is arrested, Mario spends his childhood on the streets. I...
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the hars...
Sir Elton John looks back on his life and the astonishing early days of his 50-year career in this e...
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes...
A French documentary on Superman actor Christopher Reeve as told by his French voice dubbing actor, ...
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...
Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Ital...
Biographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous yout...
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from ...
A two-hour documentary special Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors which gives viewers an intimate l...
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By th...
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (198...