Posted on October 18, 2018
Italian director-writer Renato Castellani has artistically recreated with masterful poetry, beauty and thorough documentation every transcendental detail in Da Vinci’s complex life and legend. Actor Philippe Leroy superbly lives Read More
Posted on October 16, 2018
The most celebrated work of Dante Alighieri is certainly the Divina Commedia— a vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven which providers a strangely surrealistic view of medieval attitudes on Read More
Posted on October 16, 2018
In this physical/situation comedy the stock character types of the servant, buffoon, young lover, meddling father, and pompous peasant are all maintained in their traditional costumes (as is done Read More
Posted on October 12, 2018
Every year, the renowned lectures given by Rosamond Bernier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are sold out months in advance. Her lectures are really conversations, intimate chats about Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
This video profiles how ancient Chinese technologists used gunpowder, porcelain, the cast iron plow, kites, the magnetic compass, moveable type, the blast furnace, the multistage rocket and more. Host Read More
Posted on October 11, 2018
This documentary examines the controversial theory that a Chinese Ming Dynasty fleet, led by Zheng He, sailed past the Cape of Good Hope and crossed the Atlantic to discover Read More
Posted on September 25, 2018
Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Posted on September 20, 2018
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family’s relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his Read More
Posted on September 18, 2018
Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.
Posted on September 13, 2018
The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. Read More
