La presse se fait écho de la réapparition d'une page manquante du journal de John Wilkes Booth, l'assassin d'Abraham Lincoln. Cette page contient des informations qui associent l'arrière-arrière-grand-père de Benjamin Gates à cet assassinat lui donnant même un rôle clé. Ben entame alors une quête pour disculper son aïeul. Elle l'emmène à Paris, à Londres et de retour aux États-Unis pour chercher le Livre des Secrets Présidentiels, un mystérieux livre qui contiendrait tous les secrets de notre monde transmis depuis la Guerre de Sécession à chacun des présidents américains, ainsi qu'une carte du trésor de Cibola, la cité de l'or des précolombiens.
An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.
Perdu depuis plus de 200 ans, le trésor des Chevaliers du Temple fait partie de ces mythiques légendes. Ben Gates, archéologue et aventurier, se lance à la recherche de ce trésor qui a hanté les pensées de sa famille et de ses descendants depuis des générations. Mais il n'est pas le seul intéressé. Gates et son meilleur ami Riley Poole, expert en informatique, partent en exploration sur le continent Arctique et découvrent que le premier indice menant au trésor est caché dans le document le mieux gardé au monde, la Déclaration d'Indépendance. Dans une course contre le temps, ils doivent voler le document si précieux, décoder la carte cachée, semer le FBI, et éviter d'être tués par Ian Howe, un riche aventurier anglais. Et ce n'est que la première étape de cette chasse au trésor.
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, and its subsequent sequels have asked its viewers challenging questions about contemporary society under the guise of a bold science fiction saga: a fascinating look at a hugely successful pop culture phenomenon.
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the actor's screen (and public) image with his real life and shows certain scenes, lines and situations in his films to insinuate that Hudson may have been gay.
The film follows the life of social reformer and writer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule.
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby is the Dachau concentration camp, where thousands of people were killed between 1933 and 1945. An essay about the present and the past, beauty and horror, life and death.
A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna Karina, we can see some close-up faces that marked the history of the cinema, and whose demand is more relevant than ever.
Following the victory at Sinhagad in 1670, the Moghuls began to notice the threat from the Marathas. The unique guerrilla tactics developed by Shivaji helped his warriors forge ahead with power.
A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a long-lasting relationship.
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).
Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.
How does the most famous man in the world go missing overnight and is never heard from again for three years? That's what our host Leo is trying to find out, delving into the depths of the Brett Pick timeline, documenting his process of interviewing, researching, and finding answers to his questions. This is the Brett Pick story.
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulation in Florence, which Graziella Magherini described scientifically in 1979 as Stendhal syndrome. Mark Rappaport describes his fascination for the Austrian actor Turhan Bey, who made a career in exotic roles in Hollywood in the 1940s. A very personal essay about the effect of close-ups, the canvas idols of the dream factory and the role of their admirers and fans.