Rainis

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental...

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."

It was one of humankind's most epic quests - a technical problem so complex that it challenged the best minds of its time, a problem so important...

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain...

A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there...

A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that combines unseen archive footage from the band and...