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 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impair...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
In 1971 September met four young men in a garden in Gentofte. They wanted to make a band. And they s...
Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from deali...
Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and he...
In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Se...
In the early eighteenth century, foreign rule means dark times for the Hutsuls of the Carpathians. T...
The tortured life of Paul Morphy (1850s New Orleans chess prodigy) is examined.
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...
An account of the successful life and work of Spanish singer and actor Camilo Sesto (1946-2019), the...
An in-depth portrait of British composer, pianist and singer Elton John, pop star and myth of modern...
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, ...
Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of emp...
An animator is in the process of creating a series of three drawings of prominent historical figures...
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...
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version f...