September 11, 1898: The imperial family’s personal physician, Dr. Herman Widerhofer, is deeply shocked by the news that an anarchist has assassinated Empress Elisabeth in Geneva. He then shuts himself up in his private rooms and recalls the empress’ fateful life. We learn the truth about Elisabeth, as the doctor knew more about her than anyone else.
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwea...
The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discove...
Biography of a star and figure study : This fascinating portrait is for anyone who wants to know mor...
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With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-de...
Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary pla...
Wolves divide and fascinate us. 150 years after they were driven to extinction in Central Europe, th...
A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated ...
Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and he...
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi...
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for ident...
Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...
Portrait of an exceptional musical talent and one of opera’s biggest stars, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Ba...
In 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Opera...
Tracing the history of blue jeans around the globe.