Behind the White Glasses

Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, building beds and shining shoes as part of a...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the...

Portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a writer and filmmaker who survived the Holocaust.

Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off...

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.

In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Sir David Attenborough shares extraordinary highlights of his life and career with broadcaster Kirsty...

Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the...

A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in...

In autumn 1944, during the Liberation of Brittany, writer Louis Guilloux worked as an interpreter for the American army. He was a privileged witness...

The documentary story of Harlan Ellison