A recent surprise hit in France, the delectable comedy ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS tells the story of Angelique Delange (Isabelle Carré, Private Fears in Public Places), an unemployed but gifted chocolate-maker with a lifelong case of uncontrollable [...]
HISTORY introduces INSTANT EXPERT, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. He negotiated an alliance with France, helped write the Declaration of [...]
This biographical drama/part-time documentary, narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Frederic March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the [...]
Henri Cartier-Bresson may be considered the father of modern photojournalism, but he was not solely a photographer. Several documentaries he shot between the 1930s and the 1970s bear witness to his affection for the cinema, [...]
In the mid 1700s, a mysterious beast viciously attacked and killed 102 villagers in the French village of Gevaudan. The victims, mostly women and children, were mauled and decapitated, their naked bodies all bearing the [...]
For a century, the Knights Templar was the richest and most powerful order in the medieval world, a fearsome Crusader militia who were in charge of protecting pilgrims to the Holy Land. Their holdings were [...]
Conspiracy theories capture the public’s imagination, and in this hour, we explore the death of Princess Diana — the world’s most photographed woman, who lived and died amidst media madness. On August 31, 1997, while [...]
On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King’s military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage followed, bringing about the end of feudalism and the [...]
More than 70 thousand years ago, a clan of cave dwellers roamed the cliffs of Le Conte in Southwestern France. They were Neandertals, distant cousins to modern man. The caves, among other archaeological sites, have [...]