May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family, he has been close to death on many occasions since, as a young captain in the revolutionary army, he seized Toulon from the royalists in 1793.
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth ...
Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward an...
The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who l...
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...
Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher a...
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
A look into the life of Laurent Garnier, one of the godfathers of house music, from his emergence on...
Brilliant composer and violinist George Enescu is at the peak of his career and wants to compose an ...
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joy...
A subtle portrait of Japanese director Satoshi Kon by the specialist of Japanese cinema Pascal-Alex ...
It is a life story of one of the most famous Ukrainians and certainly a faithful servant of his nati...
Some people seem to have come into the world to confuse, annoy, swim against the current, like the g...
During the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of the 19th century, Andreas Hofer became a Tyrolean fol...
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bi...
1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...