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Hal Ashbys obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar winning classics, including Harold and Maude 1971, Shampoo and Being There But as contemporaries Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuste

An Argentine journalist strives to prove that his countryman, Guillermo Villas, was wrongly denied the No 1 world ranking in the 1970s

Documentary that goes behind the stats to reveal Kobe Bryants career, exploring the mentorships, allies and rivalries that have helped shape his stellar 18 year tenure in the NBA, and uncovering his greatest personal challenge yet

An extraordinary look into the political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful leader whose questionable sense of reality divided the Philippines

A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia

When a young woman who is living in the woods with her struggling musician husband and her very young daughter discovers that she has terminal cancer, she begins to tape record a journal of

Classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk h

A young girl with Stockholm Syndrome becomes a companion for a dangerous man posing as a photographer to pick up his victims

How real life British American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the rise of Nazism

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, the dancing outlaw As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane

Carne Ross was a government highflyer A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives He felt at first hand the corruption

In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitlers close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their t

Stardust will chronicle the young David Bowies first visit to the US in 1971 a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust

In the early 16th century, the mighty Borgia family, Cesare Borgia and his pitiless sister Lucrezia rule all Italy Cesare, incestuously in love with his sister, commits a crime and starts a war campaign in Romagna Lucrezia, meanwhi

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti

Man in Camo takes a close look at the life of visual artist, writer and filmmaker Ethan Minsker and his drive to create and crusade the making of art Through the lens of old photographs and films, Minsker leads viewers on a journey

The worlds most popular entertainer and Europes greatest boxer the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in New York, transatlantic plane flights, Cerdan

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

Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world known politician

Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections

The life story of legendary basketball coach Don Meyer

An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane 1941

When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the groups Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past

Late Tejano singer Selena as her dreams come true, and her family makes life changing choices on the singers journey to success

Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushis death, director R J Cutlers documentary examines the too short life of once in a generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audienc

Revolves around the true story of a fateful night in August 1985 when five members of the same family are murdered at an Essex farmhouse, and the ensuing police investigation and court case that follows

An exploration of the history of the Bee Gees, featuring revealing interviews with oldest brother Barry Gibb, and archival interviews with the late twin brothers Robin and Maurice

A pseudo documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career During a musical tour, Montand returns to Marseille and revisits the many highlights of his life, meeting figures from his past

At the beginning of the twentieth century in Spain, a brothel owner and his partner lure rich men to their property, kill them and steal their money

Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra An unlikely orchestra made out of recycled trash As this group takes its inspiring spectacle of trash into music around the world, we follow the lives of a garbage picker, a music te

Technology has quickly turned kids making videos in their bedrooms into huge stars O2L took this path on YouTube, amassing an 8 million plus fan base, and we explore this incredible phenomenon on their first tour Its a look at the

When a wide eyed 10 year old girl visits her fathers insect laboratory, she receives an unorthodox education in genetics

Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution

In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him