To mark Beethoven's 250th birthday, the documentary sheds light on the composer's private side, linking his writings with his music in an original way. Beethoven's many letters and notes tell of his temperament, his love affairs, his humanism and his struggles, especially with the early onset of deafness.

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes beh...

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CI...

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

Standout tells the powerful story of Ben Kjar, born with Crouzon Syndrome, a rare craniofacial disor...

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including All...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his ...

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

After an absence of five years, six times Mr Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a comeback a...

Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight cham...

You could be forgiven for mistaking Charlie Siem for James Bond. Whether he's driving an orange Pors...