When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.
In 1964, Algeria, just two years after the end of the war of independence, found itself catapulted i...
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
50 years after launching our dreams into space, we’re left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring o...
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
A cinematic portrait of farmer and writer Wendell Berry. Through his eyes, we see both the changing ...
The intimate story behind our changing relationship with death. A terminal diagnosis used to mean de...
Launched in 1982 by three friends in a Houston diner, Compaq Computer set out to build a portable PC...
A profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain, after Lot...
Murder Games tells the true story of Breck Bednar, the 14 year-old schoolboy who was lured to his de...
The traditional crafts of crochet and knitting have become one of the hottest movements in modern ar...
With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress...
Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth An...
Rated X, a short documentary about the adult industry, focuses on giving a voice to the porn actress...
A full-length documentary about a controversial evangelical movement that purports to convert gay pe...
Soraïda is a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah, in the occupied territories. In this city under s...
An unlikely romance develops between a Lakota warrior and a young black woman at an 1890s black coll...