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.

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

An account of the life and work of the multidisciplinary Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny Madrazo (187...

A story of passion, rivalry, love, and friendship. Jan Banas, acclaimed Silesian football player of ...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later...

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, ...

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: I...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as ...

On a gloomy March 1881, an old, sick man was dying in the Nikolaevsky military land hospital in St. ...

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

2009, Slovenia. For 30 years, Alija, the miner, has been one of the many Bosnian immigrant workers. ...

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...