Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. A full-time actress at seven, a vaudevillian at 14, a dancing sensation at 25, a playwright at 33, a silver screen ingénue at 40, a Vegas nightclub act at 62, a recording artist at 73, a camp icon at 85 - West left no format unconquered. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today. Though a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues of the 20th century, including race and class tensions, and imbued even her most salacious plotlines with commentary about gender conformity, societal restrictions and what she perceived as moral hypocrisy. Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore West's life and career, as she "climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change.
Daniel Johnston stars in this psychedelic short film about an aging musician coming to terms with th...
A documentary about Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspok...
Kate Winslet has charted her own course, choosing to play authentic women with complex psyches and r...
With unique access to Nasa, Brian Cox follows Perseverance rover’s search for life on Mars during a ...
When we think of a prolific, yet tumultuous career in Hollywood... A name stands out amongst the cro...
Katherine Ryan presents a celebration of one of the biggest comedy talents to ever appear on the sma...
Paranormal investigators Sam and Colby have hunted ghosts at the world's most iconic haunted locatio...
The tale of an activist’s journey during the turbulent years of Martial Law, until his capture in th...
Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the...
Different experts make a stand against today's putatively criminal and harmful health system, focusi...
Everyone knows his name. The novels on the life and crimes of Hannibal Lecter are a worldwide phenom...
In July 2010, Laurent Fignon, the great cycling legend, commented on the Tour de France. Although th...
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our ...
Documentary which follows the construction of a trailblazing 36,000-tonne steel structure to entomb ...
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotam...
This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just...
A child discovers a timeless building while searching for her father, meeting vibrant creatives prot...
A dialogue-free documentary on former magazine model Pandora Peaks, with narration by Peaks and Meye...