Drama, Documentary
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fantastic adaptations to film from passages of the novel. It also includes excerpts from a book written by Joyce's friend, the artist Frank Budgen, entitled "James Joyce and the making of Ulysses". Amongst those interviewed is author Anthony Burgess.
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Beyond Bollywood
The Passion of John Ruskin
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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
Operation Finale
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Walker
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Blonde
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Hold mig fast. Før jeg forsvinder
Klimt
The Four Minute Mile
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Stalin: Man of Steel
When Under Fire: Shoot Back!
One Hundred Steps
Limonov: The Ballad
Lust for Life
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Beyond Bollywood
IMDB 6.7 | Nov , 2013
Documentary following four artists working behind the scenes as a part of the world's fastest growing film industry.The Passion of John Ruskin
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1994
A short biography on the love life of writer and critic John RuskinRBG
IMDB 7.5 | May , 2018
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
IMDB 7.9 | Jan , 2018
A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 2018
Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.Operation Finale
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 2018
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.Somebody Up There Likes Me
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1956
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.Walker
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1987
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 2006
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.Blonde
IMDB 5.9 | Sep , 2022
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
IMDB 6.6 | May , 2024
Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.Hold mig fast. Før jeg forsvinder
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2023
Klimt
IMDB 5.1 | Mar , 2006
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.The Four Minute Mile
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 1988
For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set them on the path to something even more memorable than an Olympic gold medal - the race to break the four-minute mile....Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1996
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy. Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry." It wasn't too long before the fine dramatic roles also came to her opposite the most popular leading men of the time, like Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum.Stalin: Man of Steel
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2003
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.When Under Fire: Shoot Back!
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2014
The Bang Bang Club were four fearless young photographers who set out to expose the reality of Apartheid in South Africa - a battle that changed a nation but wound up almost destroying them.One Hundred Steps
IMDB 7.8 | Sep , 2000
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.Limonov: The Ballad
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2024
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.Lust for Life
IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 1956
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.