Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the years before World War I and recorded in his reports and stories: he participated in the discovery of the real murderer of a rich innkeeper, attended the wedding of a beggar's son with the daughter of a complacent rich man, and witnessed the mysterious murder of a money-changer's uncle.

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family wi...

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scar...

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talen...

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – ...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about cre...
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not ...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined durin...

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, ...

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...

Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Av...