An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), seen through the peculiar point of view and the critic voices of the women who defined the paramount milestones of his existence: Gerti, his sister; Wally, his main model and lover; and Edith, his wife. A brief story of love, hate, betrayal and misfortune.

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

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

The life and times of noted Swedish author Sara Lidman, famous for her working-class novels set in n...

On September 11, 2001, the unimaginable transpired when devastating attacks on the World Trade Cente...

To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capot...

A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trint...

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of ...

Ignaz Wuzel and Gerhard Jeschko are regulars at the espresso in the Südtiroler Platz underground sta...

She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starrin...

A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever...

Clara Mingueza, an actress from Barcelona, sets out to move the mortal remains of Elena Jordi (1882-...

The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he app...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

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

The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. ...

After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dre...