Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his life: To unite the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through a Canal in the Isthmus of Panama – without knowing that this will cost him his reputation, thousands of innocent lives and the biggest financial scandal of all time, up to that point: the famous “Scandal of Panama”. Today, the French capital is known as “Paname”.
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Q...
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath,...
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair...
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds b...
Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dres...
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...
In the vastness of the Iranian desert, young artists strive for freedom, community, and the preserva...
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir Willi...
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modes...
Overdraft is an award-winning film featuring leading thinkers and policymakers from across the aisle...
Making a documentary on Le Corbusier is not easy, because he is undoubtedly the architect most famil...
A man with a perspective like no other on the planet. The leading structural engineer of the World T...
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how t...
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen a...
Afro-Antillean workers hired for the construction of the Panama Canal are brought from their homes t...
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and drea...
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship betwee...