An account of the life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the first female artist to get international acclaim, recognized as a modern icon, due to her personality and her unyielding defense of her professional integrity.

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614),...

Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda ...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist m...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of th...

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

It seems that in recent years Angel sightings and experiences are everywhere. Perhaps this is becaus...

A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

80 years are gone since The Little Prince was released. Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was also a p...

Over the course of a fifty-year career, the British band The Cure has released fourteen highly succe...

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...

The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he app...