The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court.
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous ...
In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt h...
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the li...
The story of two young sisters, one a somewhat demure musician who is in love with a scoundrel who's...
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the America...
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair f...
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by workin...
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices c...
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, broodi...
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her inte...
A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s...
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...
"The Memphis Years" give viewers a glimpse into the first years in the life and career of Elvis Aaro...
One of the dominating figures in Elvis Presley's life was his manager, who was known as the "Colonel...
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke...