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.

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghett...

The life and career of one of comedy's most inimitable modern voices, Mr. Gilbert Gottfried.

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...

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

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...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

German TV movie chronicling the life of singer and actor Roy Black.

An analysis of the sources of inspiration that fed the imagination of the British writer, poet and p...

Francisco Brennand is an eighty-five year odl, painter, sculptor and ceramist from Brazil. He lives ...

The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill...

A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from hi...
Documentary about the extraordinary life of Baroness Moura Budberg - caught up in a plot to topple t...

Profile of iconic war photographer Robert Capa, whose career spanned five epic conflicts across thre...
This documentary brings alive a remarkable artist’s passionate journey through a turbulent century. ...

Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing...