Documentary, History
Famous recluse J. D. Salinger has hidden from the world since "The Catcher in the Rye" took the world by storm. Banned in schools, and horrifically inspiring the killing of John Lennon, the book had repercussions no one could have foreseen and which seemed to drive the author further into hiding.
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The Accidental Prime Minister
Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown
Gandhi, My Father
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Elizabeth Windsor
The Man Who Defied Beijing
Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen
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Malevych
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2022
The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origins and by a founding trip to Africa. To portray this major painter of the 20th century, who died in 1988 at only 27 years old, is also to evoke the place of black American artists in the conservative and racist America of the Reagan years.André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2019
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. Overwhelmed by the weight of power. The numerous exploits of André Malraux (1901-1976).Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
IMDB 5.8 | Jun , 2017
A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.Louis Kahn's Tiger City
IMDB 10 | Apr , 2019
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how the famed American architect built a daringly modern and monumental parliamentary complex in war-torn Bangladesh.Moby Doc
IMDB 6.1 | May , 2021
A surrealist biographical documentary about trailblazing electronic musician and animal rights activist Moby.The Accidental Prime Minister
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2019
Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Manmohan Singh's tenure as the Prime Minister of India, and the kind of control he had over his cabinet and the country.Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 1965
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
IMDB 0 | May , 1988
The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's personal archive, interviews with Bergman recorded over his 40 years in the film industry and passages from his autobiography read by Max von Sydow and Bergman himself.Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1996
Jerry Lewis biographyGandhi, My Father
IMDB 5.6 | Aug , 2007
Unable to live in his father's gigantic shadow, Mahatma Gandhi's eldest son, Harilal, gets distraught and resorts to alcoholism.Mary Kom
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2014
A chronicle of the life of Indian boxer 'Mary Kom' who went through several hardships before audaciously accomplishing her ultimate dream.Midas Man
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 2024
When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of gold. Sharply dressed and well-spoken, Brian was hardly the most obvious radical – but being Jewish, closeted and having grown up as an outsider who had failed at pretty much everything, he was a 26-year old with something to prove and who wanted to tear up the rulebook.Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2012
Elizabeth Windsor
IMDB 7.6 | May , 2022
Elizabeth Windsor tells the story of the girl who was never supposed to be Queen. Born the first daughter of 'the spare', the Duke of York, Princess Elizabeth's life was destined to be nothing more than a bit part in the privileged shadows of the British Royal family.The Man Who Defied Beijing
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2019
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. Silenced, arrested, convicted, imprisoned, dead. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, alive forever. These are his last words.Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen
IMDB 6.4 | May , 2022
The story of Queen Elizabeth II in her own words, featuring never-before-seen home movies.When the Cows Come Home
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2022
When the Cows Come Home introduces audiences to Tilly and Maggie, a pair of cows that musician, journalist, artist and cow whisperer, Andrew Johnstone has befriended and subsequently saved from slaughter. The garrulous herdsman is enthusiastic to expound his views on animal husbandry, bovine communication and the vagaries of life in general, before the film walks us back through the events that have shaped the singular farmer-philosopher. From personal family tragedy to warring with Catholic school authorities, innovating in Hamilton’s nascent music scene to creating guerrilla art installations; Johnstone’s life has had a truly idiosyncratic trajectory. Mental health issues may have seen him retreat to life on the farm, but the film makes clear its subject’s restless inquisitiveness is far from being put out to pasture.Malevych
IMDB 5 | Sep , 2025
What stands behind the Black Square, painted in 1915 by the obsessive artist Kazymyr Malevych? For his competitors, a fraud, for the Soviet regime, a secret code, for one woman, a love letter, for the people of Ukraine – a prophecy…David Lean: A Self Portrait
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1971
A television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews in which the director explains his methods, the beginnings of his career, and his relationships with actors and actresses.The Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer Simón
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2015
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).