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.

The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.

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

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

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and frie...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

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

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the ...

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CI...

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...