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.

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, ...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday ...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Eccentric and provocative, Lady Gaga is undoubtedly the greatest pop diva. The one who is actually c...

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing o...

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the ...

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to...

Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By th...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism w...

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

They grew up in the land of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are burned...

This documentary offers a deeply intimate look at extraordinary teenager Billie Eilish. Award-winnin...

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic...