Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality she was a deeply unconventional person with a profound passion for food, life and men.

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Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...

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The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after hi...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

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

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hu...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...