An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in science fiction literature involved in mysteries and paradoxes that need to be enlightened.
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by th...
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collect...
Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish ...
The American writer Stephen King has been one of the world's best-selling authors for decades. How c...
Documentary containing interviews with performers discussing the influence that Michael Jackson had ...
An intimate and erotic film about 8 gay men alone in their San Francisco bedrooms
Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adm...
A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 ...
For over 60 years, Studs Terkel elevated the voices and experiences of everyday Americans through hi...
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Hosted by Jack Perkins (of A&E's "Biography" series), this documentary profiles the life of L.L. Bea...
Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but m...
In 1993, Jesús Parrado interviewed actor and director Jacinto Molina, world-wide known as Paul Nasch...
When he arrives in Saint Petersburg, at the age of 29, Marius Petipa is just an obscure dancer who f...
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pomp...
The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, ...
The story of the cross destiny of George Orwell (1903-50) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the genius ...