George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing

Carlin returns to the stage in his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO®. His spot-on observations on the deterioration of human behavior include Americans’ obsession with their two favorite addictions - shopping and eating; his creative idea for The All-Suicide Channel, a new reality TV network; and the glorious rebirth of the planet to its original pristine condition - once the fires and floods destroy life as we know it.

2005-11-05 | en

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate.

1989-10-31 | en

24 horas en la vida de Querejeta

2012-12-14 | es

George Carlin: Doin' It Again

George Carlin brings his comedy back to New Jersey and this time talks about Offensive Language, Euphemisms, They're Only Words, Dogs, Things you never hear, see or wanna hear, Some people are stupid, Cancer, Feminists, Good Ideas, Rape, Life's moments, and organ donors.

1990-06-02 | en

Visconti: La verdad del melodrama

2001-03-12 | es

Robbie Robertson: Going Home

Documentary on musician Robbie Robertson.

1995-05-28 | en

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

2017-06-09 | fr

Polanski y los ojos del mal

Documentary that describes and analyzes the characteristics, themes and central concerns of Roman Polanski's cinema.

2002-04-16 | es

George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head

George Carlin is in top form with these stand-up recorded at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles in 1986. Routines included are "Losing Things," "Charities," "Sports," "Hello and Goodbye," "Battered Plants," "Earrings," and "A Moment of Silence." Also included is a short film entitled "The Envelope" co-starring Vic Tayback.

1986-06-14 | en

Lucian Freud: Painted Life

2012-05-25 | en

George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy

George Carlin celebrates 40 years of comedy and here, he presents 2 new standup bits, comedian Jon Stewart gives an interview with him, and we look at his old comedy work through the last 4 decades.

1997-02-28 | en

Dying for Everest

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable achievement and Inglis was feted by press and public alike. But only a few days later he was plunged into a storm of controversy when it was learned that he had passed an incapacitated climber, Englishman David Sharp, leaving him to a lonely end high in the Death Zone.

2007-05-05 | en

Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - John Byrne, Jack Vettriano and Rachel MacLean - each create a new portrait of the Big Yin. As he sits with each artist, Billy talks about his remarkable life and career which has taken him from musician and pioneering stand-up to Hollywood star and national treasure.

2017-06-14 | en

Diana: In Her Own Words

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

2017-08-06 | en

Rafael Azcona

2010-09-30 | es

Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim

2012-10-14 | fr

Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit

1965-12-02 | fr

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's personal archive, interviews with Bergman recorded over his 40 years in the film industry and passages from his autobiography read by Max von Sydow and Bergman himself.

1988-05-24 | en

Hippies

The 1960's and 1970's were a time of change, a time of revolution, a time of the Hippies. Hippies reached across the nation and their effects are still felt today.

2007-06-12 | en

The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill

This documentary explores Kate Bush's career and music, from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of some of her key collaborators and those she has inspired.

2014-08-22 | en