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.
The story of the settlement of Irish immigrants in the North Bronx, New York, and how the once predo...
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming...
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of...
Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language.
Multi-talented, Paul Newman is one of the greatest American actors of all time. With his silhouette ...
A look at the world of US writer Paul Auster, on the occasion of the publication of his new novel, a...
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an ...
In 17th century Finland young Arvid is forced to marry Brita but their ways soon part when their res...
Jakub presents an extensive ethnographical-sociological study of the life of the Ruthenians, filmed ...
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...
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...
Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River exposes the housing crisis face...
Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Sh...
Two bodies and one mind, this is the extraordinary story of one pair of conjoined twins in today's w...
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media an...