Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he was both a direct witness and a narrator of his times and his poem is a remarkable geopolitical chronicle of a tumultuous period of the Middle Ages from 1300 to 1320, a time when Kings, Popes, rulers and warlords played a deadly chess game for the control of Europe. In this high end docudrama, some of the world's finest scholars will help provide historical context to the unfolding of events, making them accessible to a wide audience, and giving us a privileged viewpoint over one of the most eventful and funding chapters of European history.

Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film trace...

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

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A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

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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 ...

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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...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

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An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

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The life career of Václav Havel (1936-2011), a persecuted playwright and human rights defender in th...