La pellicola, basata sul libro di Robert Kanigel, "L'uomo che vide l'infinito - La vita breve di Srinivasa Ramanujan, genio della matematica", racconta la vera storia di Srinivasa Ramanujan, genio indiano della matematica, completamente autodidatta. Per far conoscere al mondo la sua mente geniale, dovrà lasciarsi alle spalle la giovane e amata sposa Janaki, interpretata da Devika Bhise per intraprendere un lungo viaggio che lo porterà a Cambridge, dove forgerà un forte legame con il suo mentore, l'eccentrico professore G.H. Hardy. Sotto la guida di Hardy, il suo lavoro si evolverà in modo tale da rivoluzionare per sempre la matematica e trasformare il modo in cui gli scienziati spiegano il mondo.
Attraverso interviste esclusive e filmati di repertorio, questo documentario ricostruisce un ritratto intimo del sette volte campione di Formula 1 Michael Schumacher.
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the nation and keep her in the spotlight.
"Imagine" è un collage cinematografico di colori, suoni, dove l'immaginazione si mescola alla realtà. Un film progettato e diretto da John e Yoko, con la partecipazione di molti artisti come George Harrison, Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett, Jack Palance o Jonas Mekas.
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 history of cinema.
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
A documentary special that provides a rare view into the real Charles behind the headlines… told in his own words.
A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?"
Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin’s varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, and others. We hear from admirers such as critic Gerald Early, actor Jon Hamm, and Hip-Hop artist RZA who testify to Martin’s enduring mystique.
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father.
50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.
The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba
Il tennista John McEnroe è all'apice della sua carriera come campione del mondo. Le immagini mostrano il suo impegno per la perfezione ma anche le frustrazioni di un uomo fondamentalmente solo e il dolore per la più grande sconfitta della sua carriera al Roland Garros nel 1984.
Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert Camus had an extraordinary destiny. Child of the poor districts of Algiers, tuberculosis patient, orphan of father, son of an illiterate and deaf mother, he tore himself away from his condition thanks to his teacher. French from Algeria, he never ceased to fight for equality with the Arabs and the Kabyle, while fearing the Independence of the FLN. Founded on restored and colorized archives, and first-hand accounts, this documentary attempts to paint the portrait of Camus as he was.
I Am JFK Jr. - A Tribute to a Good Man is an homage to America's fallen prince and the Kennedy legacy. It is the story of a young man destined for greatness, but determined to be good in a world filled with high expectations.
The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.
A portrait of Per Åhlin, who has been called the father of Swedish animation.
