A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
Maria Casarès, a theatre actress and Albert Camus, one of the most important modern french writer, k...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
Egypt, 11th century. When a famine ravages the country, the prosperous Andalusian kingdom of Denia c...
The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey...
The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all tim...
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came ver...
A year in the company of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a recor...
Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T....
A Czech director wrestles with problems personal and political during the Prague spring of 1968.
Filmmaker Helena de Llanos, who lives in the chaotic house, full of memories and treasures, where he...
A retrospective on the great election battles of the past in the United States: the Kennedy-Nixon de...
The Last Straw is a film documenting the very last live poetry reading given by Charles Bukowski at ...
Based upon the Gold-Medallion award-winning best-seller, The Case for Christ documents Lee Strobel's...
The extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence (1919-22): from the failed insurrection of ...
An epic journey through Don Quixote's troubled mind, from which five paths to the unknown are opened...
Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army loca...