A gifted student, Annie Girardot thought for a while of becoming a nurse, before passing the entrance exam to the Conservatory. She leaves with two first prizes in comedy. In the theater she triumphed in "The Typewriter" by Jean Cocteau. It was Cocteau who made her cut her hair to adopt his famous short cut. The cinema opened its doors and she turned with Pierre Fresnay, then with Jean Gabin, in "Le rouge est mis" by Gilles Grangier. The Comédie-Française then asked her to make a choice. It would be the cinema.
A short documentary on Jerome Kern and the making of Till the Clouds Roll By.
A short documentary on the lives of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and the making of the fil...
A true-life tale of the Great American Dream, this movie showcases one man's rise from the streets o...
The story of the triumphs and hurdles of brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as...
Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when...
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trum...
The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquired and...
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Al...
Looking for clues about the “Chaplin of Theresienstadt”, ghetto cabaret artist Karel Švenk, Schönema...
A biography on the life of Christina Aguilera.
Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...
A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that ...
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramo...
For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world'...
It was one of humankind's most epic quests - a technical problem so complex that it challenged the b...