Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he was a man full of contradictions, who enjoyed card games more than movies; he was an eternal nomad who spent half his life in a hotel.

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", feat...

The second part of a BBC documentary on the latter half of the career of French director Jean Renoir...

Three-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave director Ja...

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan ...

This is the story of a man who climbed the Hollywood ladder, one rung at a time, until he reached th...

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

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

Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A s...

Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy b...
An interview with Spanish film director Victor Erice, conducted by Hideyuki Miyaoka
After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain'...
Documentary about the 1971 Canadian film by Claude Jutra.
A documentary about American film director Budd Boetticher

Documentary about the making of Wim Wenders' 1984 film, with interviews conducted in 1989.
In this new program, actors Beverly D'Angelo, Don Dacus, Ellen Foley, Annie Golden, John Savage, and...

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

Eccentric and provocative, Lady Gaga is undoubtedly the greatest pop diva. The one who is actually c...
in this new program, editors Lynzee Klingman and Stanley Warnow remember how they were given the opp...
in this new program, production designer Stuart Wurtzel recalls his initial encounter with Milos For...