His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

In a society forbidding emotion, a pianist attempts to mourn her late daughter against the wishes of...

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55,...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World ...

In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young fam...

Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat sho...

Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, t...

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's hom...
Iranian film director Amir Naderi talks to Zar Amir Ebrahimi about his career in this documentary di...

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He dec...

Danielle, a vibrant young woman, was forced into servitude after the death of her father when she wa...

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a p...

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Com...

V P Sathyan was a legendary footballer who played for the national team. But lack of recognition and...

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...