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Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion This colorful movie depicts DeSades life from childhood to manhood A life infamous for erotic

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and her resistance to the British Rule

In small town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp

A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J P Morgans daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light

When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the

Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend their summer in their hometown of Bishop, California They rent a summer house from a handsome truck driver named John

A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethovens life

This investigative docuseries explores the greed, fraud and corruption that built up and ultimately brought down Indias most infamous tycoons

A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up

The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli

Ill look at you, but not at the camera It could be a trap, whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnes Vardas ear at the start of JANE B PAR AGNES V The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VAGABOND once again paints a portrait of a wom

SEX AND BROADCASTING is a feature length documentary about New Jerseys WFMU, the worlds strangest and most unique radio station, and one mans attempt to keep it alive in the face of recession, the persistent threat of commercial m

The discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murder

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous Frenc

The lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they flock to the gold rush capital in the untamed Yukon Territory This man versus nature tale places our heroes in a land full of undiscovered wealth,

A story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history

Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari 16 November 1892 11 August 1953 was an Italian racing driver First he raced motorcycles and then he concentrated on sports cars and single seaters Resident in Mantua, he was known as Il Mantovano Volante

Chasing his dream to join an elite K 9 unit, a state trooper partners with a fellow underdog clever but naughty shelter pup Ruby

A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone

Orphaned in his childhood and treated abusively by higher ranking Boyars, Tzar Ivan was a mercurial ruler who committed his first murder at the age of 13 and was feared for his random acts of violence Experience his powerful reig

This documentary follows legendary photographer Douglas Kirkland as he assembles his first visual memoir, A Life in Pictures, and recalls pivotal moments in his career

The Seventies A quest for spirituality and sexual freedom In England, young Hugh Milne hears the voice of spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an audiotape and travels to India in search of his own self

Drawn this Way wt is a one hour television documentary which dives into the pages of gay comic book characters and their creators In the studio, in the comic book shops, at the fan crazed conventions, and at home with the artis

Features interviews and personal archives from the life and career of NBA legend Bill Russell

The movie centres on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books

Die Vermessung der Welt follows two brilliant and eccentric scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, on their life paths in early 19th century Germany

Young Sophie Dorothea marries Prince George Louis but its far from a love match Then she falls for Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Konigsmark

Trapped in a world he never made up, Joe struggles to find a job or even a meaningful relationship with anyone outside of his imaginary pal, Charlie Nubbins The only place Joe feels at home is on stage during a local poetry night

At the end of his rope, Johnny Cash stumbled into a cave and laid down in the dark But death didnt come calling God did JOHNNY CASH THE REDEMPTION OF AN AMERICAN ICON is the untold story of how The Man in Black saw the light

A war photographer embeds in a community of tree planters who overcome grueling conditions and emotional difficulties to bring back the forest

The history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip hop

Mike Veeck, son of legendary Major League Baseball owner Bill Veeck, blows up his fathers career and then spends the next few decades learning the value of a second chance

Based on the true story of the murder of Heidi who was murdered by her friend Magen

Christopher Columbus discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people

Musical duo Donnie and Joe Emerson spend everything they have to produce a record in the 1970s

Documentary film about Eric Claptons musical journey and his love for Blues music, featuring live performances of blues standards covered by Eric Clapton as well as historical video footage of blues musicians of various generations