The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...

Surpassed only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the most successful writer of all ti...

This film is based on the life of Kawashima Yoshiko, originally Manchu princess who was the 14th dau...

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in ...

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 t...

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He...

An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey H...

The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fit...

The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rig...

Using a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage, correspondence, and new and illuminating interviews,...

Rambam was born in Cordova, Spain in the 12th century. Known as the "Nesher Gadol" the "Great Eagle"...

This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.

13th century Georgia. Georgia, destroyed by numerous invaders, is on the verge of physical destructi...

Dismembered limbs. Topless mermaids. Crabs with human heads. These Chinese folklore-themed statues, ...

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their na...

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.

The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the...

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and ...

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-bitin...