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.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...

Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when...

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

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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...