Heike Lettau

An American low-budget action film celebrated an unexpected worldwide success in 1988: "Bloodsport". With its, the world of film fans and martial a...

17 de mar. de 2023

It was long believed that animals only played to learn, only mated to reproduce and only took drugs by accident. But sometimes, they just do it for...

01 de jan. de 2025

The personal and professional story of Ilona Staller, known as Cicciolina, is probably unique: she left communist Hungary and moved to Italy, where...

10 de mai. de 2017

An analysis of the rise of the European far-right, increasingly present in both politics and everyday life: an inquisitive journey through France, ...

27 de ago. de 2024

Russia, China and Iran: three former empires are determined to take their revenge and reassert their power after centuries of humiliation. Since th...

16 de mai. de 2024

United States, September 1st, 2016. American football player Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem, protesting police brutality agains...

18 de ago. de 2019

Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still considered a superstar after 50 years of career. She fa...

16 de ago. de 2020

Some celebrate him as a sex symbol and the most interesting actor of our time. Envious people talk about his smooth face, his washboard stomach, an...

15 de jul. de 2018

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owne...

16 de jun. de 2022

July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lands on the surface of the Moon. Such a feat was apparently performed to the greater glory of all mankind, but actually i...

02 de jan. de 2019

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place. Apparently, Russia i...

19 de abr. de 2017

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War ...

10 de jan. de 2021

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadisti...

06 de ago. de 2017

The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America througho...

02 de jul. de 2023

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted arou...

30 de jan. de 2019

Um revelador documentário sobre o mais famoso cineasta tcheco, Miloš Forman, duas vezes ganhador do Oscar. Por meio de um valioso tesouro de imagen...

16 de jul. de 2019

The silent cinema had already created colossal movies based on ancient civilizations, but it is in the 1950s when peplums reach their apogee in Hol...

14 de abr. de 2019

An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston.

13 de dez. de 2017

Old guilt, forgiveness and a new love. After 20 years in the French Foreign Legion, Martin returns to his Czech hometown. As soon as he arrives, he...

09 de fev. de 2020

A serious crisis has shaken Spain since the referendum on self-determination and the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia by the governmen...

19 de dez. de 2017

By the end of the seventies, disco music, considered too mainstream, was dead. But DJs and dance floors still needed new records and faster rhythms...

19 de fev. de 2019

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courso...

02 de jul. de 2021

The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members of Aboriginal peoples second-class citizens, separated from the white population: nomadic fo...

18 de fev. de 2021

Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but this is not permitted under British law. She refuses to wait for death in unbeara...

21 de mar. de 2019

An in-depth portrait of British composer, pianist and singer Elton John, pop star and myth of modern culture.

09 de jan. de 2016

The Smurfs were created in 1958 by the Belgian comic author Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992) and they are one of Belgium's most recognized export...

08 de jun. de 2018

A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pe...

14 de mai. de 2019

05 de jun. de 2019

In 2017, twenty years after the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, young people, more politicized than any previous generation and pro...

04 de jul. de 2017

In the United States of America, lobbyists, corporations and billionaires invest millions of dollars to ensure that a suitable candidate, one incli...

27 de out. de 2020

Cats are cuddly felines and lovely pets, but also highly evolved predators that hunt huge amounts of small mammals, birds and reptiles; perfect kil...

03 de jun. de 2019

A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest...

01 de fev. de 2022

Pippi Longstocking, a superhuman girl, extremely strong, redhead with pigtails and freckles, moves to Villa Villekulla, a wooden house located in a...

16 de dez. de 2019

Three men embark on a journey in search of meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives: Bob swaps his safe home for a camper van and tries t...

18 de nov. de 2016

After twenty years in power, Vladimir Putin continues to implement his geopolitical strategy with Russia’s comeback on the big stage of world polit...

15 de fev. de 2022

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century. Virtu...

01 de out. de 2020

Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, would be inconceivable without a handful of legenda...

15 de set. de 2019

In the heart of southern France there is a fog-prone area where, according to legend, a bloodthirsty creature wreaked havoc 250 years ago. A rumor ...

22 de mai. de 2019

The apocalyptic blast in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, exacerbates anger at those in power: protests cross religious boundaries a...

17 de nov. de 2020

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the surf...

01 de dez. de 2016

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in science fiction literature involved in mysteries an...

02 de nov. de 2016

Dalibor is based on events that took place in the 15th century: having led a peasant revolt, the Knight Dalibor of Kozojedy was imprisoned, by orde...

21 de fev. de 2022

After decades of growth and ostentation, when every excess was allowed, the fashion industry is currently at a turning point, caught up in the poli...

24 de set. de 2021

19 de jul. de 2019

The delta regions of world’s great rivers are impressive landscapes of constant change, each with its own uniquely diverse ecosystem. Often, river ...