The US writer Henry Miller (1891-1980), scandalous and nonconformist creator, hated by the most recalcitrant puritans, was a vilified genius, considered a threat, accused of being a sexist, of consciously pursuing the destruction of every civic principle; but he was also someone venerated as a saint, as a sex guru; and today as one of the most important characters of the twentieth century.

Featuring never-before-seen concert footage and narration by Jeff Bridges, this documentary explores...

A biographical film about the popular rap artist Detsl, whose real name is Kirill Tolmatskiy. The ra...

On the occasion of awarding the Cervantes Prize to the Catalan writer Juan Marsé on 23 April 2009, f...

The story of one of the greatest pop bands of all time, this programme features, for the first time,...

Follow the life of four talented musicians from their origins as they soared to one of the greatest ...

A story about 4 gay men who try to lead a normal life in Korea, the conservative and harsh country f...

This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award ...

60 years ago, almost nothing was known of elephants in the wild. But then one young Scottish biologi...

Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of t...

Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of polic...

How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French ...

50 % of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Life in a me...

The extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous contemporary scientist, told in his own words an...

In "Gone with the Wind" she was an unforgettable Scarlett O'Hara. Beauty, two-time Oscar winner, cel...
Another kind of biography, one that unravels the mysteries of Dalí, the conflicts with himself and w...

The exiled Austro-German musician and composer Artur Schnabel was a giant of his time, but in German...

After being shot during a robbery in Colombia and losing sensation in his legs, Uruguayan soccer sta...