"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…

Sean Penn is almost a living legend. His filmography paints a picture of an 'other America': the low...

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high sc...

A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: black...

A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revoluti...

On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao ...

From Victor Hugo`s classic French novel of the nineteenth century to Tom Hooper`s award winning bloc...

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The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in ...

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David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby K...

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After I died from suicide, I was punished for this deadly sin, to live alone in the spirit world dee...
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