Biography

Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren’s avant-garde films of the 1940s Read More »

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Read More »

This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker’s own boyhood. Read More »

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »

A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. Read More »

The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. Read More »

In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »

Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and respected writer. Ever since he was young he’s despised the English because of the starvation that they caused Norway through WWI. Read More »

An actual twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the very first openly homosexual U.S. politicians elected to public office Read More »

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Read More »