I Am Richard Pryor

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native...

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...

Documentary on Belgian director of greek descent Jean Daskalidès.

A look back at the life and works of Michelangelo Antonioni.

The life story of an unassuming, modest, yet extremely principled woman is also a dramatic portrait...

A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theate...

They are the first and the last, those who imagine stories and give voice to the characters who live...

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in...

A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act...

Documentary about cartoonist John Callahan and the creation of his animated series Quads!

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

"The Undefeated Femininity" - a film about Gun Grut Bergman. In September 1949 Ingmar Bergman left h...

Jon Richardson uncovers and celebrates the astounding breadth of Britain's weird and wonderful perso...

When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talen...

A documentary telling the remarkable human story of Stephen Hawking. For the first time, the persona...

China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he...

In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated...

In the age of social media, nearly every day brings a new eruption of outrage. While people have alw...

In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the bl...