Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
Marjorie grew up in Winchelsea in country Victoria, Australia, dreaming of becoming an opera star li...
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ...
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...
A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.
Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic pict...
Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narr...
Legendary singer, actor, and jazz pianist Nat King Cole was prominent in the mid-1900s. Though he pa...
Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Uni...
Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing ...
A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to o...
This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unkn...
Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of A...
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film c...
Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in en...
Made famous by the 1957 Hollywood movie, the bridges of the River Kwai emblematize one of the most m...
From an archived interview originally recorded in 1982, this 1990 production reveals the findings of...
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scen...