Dans les années 1950 à Pittsburgh, Troy Maxon, ancien joueur de la Negro League de baseball, est devenu éboueur. Il vit aujourd'hui avec son épouse Rose, son fils Cory et son jeune frère Gabriel, ancien soldat handicapé suite à une blessure à la tête.
Une vieille prostituée évoque sa vie qui fut une série de tragédies. Étant jeune, elle a aimé un homme de condition inférieure. Cette relation provoqua son expulsion de la cité impériale.
À la cour et à la ville, la vie intense de l'avocate féministe Gloria Allred et ses procès héroïques contre des célébrités du spectacle, de la politique et des affaires.
La spectaculaire évasion de Dieter Dengler, pilote germano-américain, dont l'avion fut abattu au Laos pendant la guerre du Vietnam et qui fut capturé pendant six mois par les soldats du Pathet Lao.
A follow up to NTR: Kathanayakudu which was based on N.T. Rama Rao's life and acting career. This movie focuses on his political career.
Xochil is a woman who must immerse in her past to find herself, opening the doors to a world that she thought was long forgotten.
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp, a young opera singer from San Francisco, this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
This is the story of how a prince became a king, a revealing portrait of our new monarch across the seven decades he spent as heir to the throne. It’s a journey from cradle to crown told almost solely in his own words, from film and television recordings to private home movies and featuring a wealth of material, some of which has never been seen before. As well as drawing on home movies from the Royal Collection, the film-makers were given exclusive access to sequences featuring the prince, shot for the landmark 1969 film Royal Family, including private unseen moments.
A Bollywood session violinist finds expression in an unlikely place. The day unfolds to reveal startling truths about music, art, life and survival.
Meet Duewand Collier Jr.-Male, 68 years old, American Citizen, a child conceived in the backdrop of the Philippines-American Mutual Defense Treaty, born and raised with Catholic guilt. He has made peace with his past and now tells his story-a story of love.
Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich archival material, the filmmaker links these Parallel Lives with elements from his own biography, to compose a fascinating fresco where intimate trajectories are part of the advent of the global village.
Grâce à des documents d'archives inédits et à de nouvelles interviews intimes approfondies, Richard Williams, le père et l'entraîneur des joueuses de tennis Venus et Serena Williams, retrace le parcours fulgurant de sa famille. C'est l'histoire d'une famille, d'un sport et de combats sociétaux.
Take a journey through the eyes of 25-year-old aspiring professional skateboarder, Adam Jensen to see how skateboarding is the perfect tool in overcoming life’s most difficult obstacles. Those closest to Adam will make their comments about his life, and potential to achieve notoriety in his professional career through his trials and triumphs.
Reflections on life and her journey by Diane - a retired model and a star of a cult classic horror film "Manos: the Hands of Fate".
Growing up, I heard many tales of my grandmother's life, before she was known as Mimo, and each narrative she told stuck with me and still impact my thinking to this day. I wanted to celebrate Mimo's wisdom and character, as well as capture the extraordinary within the ordinary. Hopefully I can inspire others to reflect on their own relationships with their elders and the untold stories that shaped their lives.
When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a career as a bouncer in the city's most notorious music club and an attempt to start a family. Today, the 77-year-old from Bielefeld lives with his dog Lucky in a lonely house in the country. Despite adverse living conditions, he has survived in his own unique and inimitable way.
An old hostel, located in the center of Porto, served for many years as a hostel for people with few possessions, prostitutes and people passing through who made that place a more or less prolonged residence.