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.
Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A s...
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique...
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...
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
A biography on the life of Christina Aguilera.
Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Chris...
Dan Wetzel and Kevin Armstrong undertake an exhaustive journey into the mind and motives behind the ...
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stal...