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.

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...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.

When director Iván Guarnizo's mother passes during the first days of peace talks with FARC-EP in Col...

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1...

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth ...

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous p...

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

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after hi...

A story about how football, cinema, photojournalism and intimidation with power can come together in...

In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Se...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

The true king of cocaine. At his peak he sold 2,000 kilos a week, reaped gross profits of $70 millio...

Best known for their megahit ’80s anthem "Don't You (Forget About Me)”—made famous in John Hughes’ T...

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" c...