History
2024-10-20
An analysis of The Magic Mountain, a novel by the German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), published in November 1924.
2014-01-30
1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not a...
2005-07-21
2000-09-02
A biographic story of one of the biggest writers of all time, Fyodor Dostoevsky, as narrated by his wife.
2016-03-01
The North Star is the story of Benjamin 'Big Ben' Jones and Moses Hopkins, two slaves who escaped from a Virginia plantation and made their way to fre...
2022-10-29
Japanese swords fascinate collectors around the world. A special kind of steel called tamahagane is required to make them. This miraculous material is...
1985-03-28
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South ...
1972-01-07
Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Aug...
1989-01-01
1987-01-01
1938-09-03
A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.
2014-11-07
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
1937-12-11
Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.
2017-06-30
Archaic moments from the past 2,000 years, dealing with love, jealousy, betrayal, hatred, and war. At the center of each story is a man of action: som...
2008-10-10
The story of the mystical world of a young Mevlevi dervish who witnesses the emotional relationship between two young members of the palace, amid the ...
2009-02-10
We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.
A biopic of Anna May Wong, the Golden Age icon whose career brought her international recognition even as she continued to face opportunity limitation...