Very few Icons have at once embodied the Myths of their own country while revealing its contradictions: heiress of the Hollywood star system and muse of the French auteur Cinema, Academy Award winning actress and committed producer, feminist and aerobic queen, activist and fearless businesswoman… In a lifetime, Jane Fonda may have reconciled all the facets of America without renouncing her own integrity. Through her portrait, the film tells a social and political story while drawing the picture of a typically American phenomenon.
Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A s...
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
A biography on the life of Christina Aguilera.
Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...
Dan Wetzel and Kevin Armstrong undertake an exhaustive journey into the mind and motives behind the ...
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stal...
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that ...
'JFK: Seven Days That Made a President' investigates the seven key days in JFK's life that helped sh...
A true-life tale of the Great American Dream, this movie showcases one man's rise from the streets o...
Armed with a camcorder, farmer-filmmaker-activist Severine von Tscharner Fleming spent two years cri...