"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his writing, to the bitter end?" In the twilight of his second seven-year term, François Mitterrand was alone. Ravaged by illness and abandoned by a large majority of the Socialist Party, who would not forgive him for the disastrous outcome of the March 1993 elections, the Head of State was preparing to tackle a second round of cohabitation with the right wing. However a series of unexpected tragedies and revelations would arise, casting a shadow over the end of his reign…

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the ...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsi...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

How do we live, knowing we are going to die? In search of answers, we probed the minds of atheists, ...
More than two decades after it left our screens, BBC Two’s iconic and much-loved music documentary s...
Between 500,000 to 800,000 people belonging to the Tutsi minority ethnic group as well as some moder...

In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voi...

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...

An enduring myth in U.S. presidential election history is that George H.W. Bush only lost his re-ele...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...