When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came ver...
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
This is the unlikely story of 21 ministers and prime ministers who have crossed or are crossing the ...
A fresh new look at Lolita, the famous and controversial novel published in 1955 by Russian writer V...
The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, t...
Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alf...
The passenger pigeon, the most abundant bird species in North America for thousands of years, became...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the...
An epic journey through Don Quixote's troubled mind, from which five paths to the unknown are opened...
Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he...
A retrospective on the great election battles of the past in the United States: the Kennedy-Nixon de...
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botto...
A Czech director wrestles with problems personal and political during the Prague spring of 1968.
The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey...
Egypt, 11th century. When a famine ravages the country, the prosperous Andalusian kingdom of Denia c...
A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—onl...