Dr. Norman Bethune served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. His work behind battle lines made him a legendary figure....
Biography
This documentary traces the life and work of C.D. Hoy, one of Canada's most famous early photographers.
Follows British mathematician Hannah Fry as she explores Ada Lovelace's extraordinary life, her engrossing relationship with Charles Babbage and her legacy as the world's first computer programmer...
Using the street photography of Foncie Pulice, this documentary traces a timeline through the heart of Vancouver, showing its diverse history and cultural identity.
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Follows the dramatic coming-of-age story of prodigal pianist Marika Bournaki, from age 12 to 20, whose life has focused on becoming a world-class concert pianist since the age of five.
Forty years later, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison still resonates with a rawness and authenticity that few recordings have ever achieved.
Leslie Caron is one of the last witnesses to the golden age of American cinema. Now, discover the secrets of her work and life - a world of contradictions, ambitions, and dreams.
Oscar Peterson's utter dedication to music took him to the pinnacle of international success and to the depths of emotional despair.
Actress Patricia Routledge takes viewers through the life of one of the most well-known children's authors ever, Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Jeremy Fisher.
Queen Victoria is too often misunderstood as the solid black-clad matron, stern and forbidding, yet her diaries and letters reveal a woman quite different from the one we think we know.
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Constraint
Biographer A.N. Wilson reveals a woman who was passionately romantic and who spent her years as a child and young...
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Liberation
A.N. Wilson discovers the real story behind the woman who supposedly spent the last half of her life in hiding,...
Genius of the Modern World
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Marx
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Marx
Historian Bettany Hughes investigates the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx.
