In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her on her journey to the wedding and covered the sensational event.

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

A documentary portrait of a legendary Czech jockey, Josef Vána, reveals his inner world of thoughts....

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

Looney Tunes Friz Freleng appears in interview segments in this excellent documentary, which spends ...

How many working class Balmain boys grow up to be showgirls? Not just any showgirl but a household n...

Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Ma...
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not ...
Octavio Ocampo is the creator of the metamorphic style painting technique, a technique of overlappin...

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1...

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous p...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

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

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...