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Based on Roderick Bradford’s 2006 biography D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker, the film chronicles the life of the controversial nineteenth-century American publisher who some called “the devil’s own advocate.” Inspired by Thomas Paine, D.M. Bennett founded the “blasphemous” New York City freethought periodical The Truth Seeker and challenged the puritanical Comstock Law, named after U.S. [...]

Through the eyes of four women Rodrigo Dorfman shows us in this documentary film, what it means to live in exile and leaving his own home country behind. When Rodrigo Dorfman was 6 years old he hat do go into exile as well, after his father, a Chilean writer, got into troubles with the regime [...]

In this dream-like video essay, the viewer travels from New York City’s ghostly Ansonia Hotel to the vital, boundless expanses of South America, Northern Africa and Belize. Roberta Allen, a prominent New York author and visual artist, travels back to her early years growing up the daughter of a mafia-connected gambler and a repressed over-anxious [...]

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish” that’s the main message Apple founder Steve Jobs gives in this speech to college students from Stanford douring his Commencement address on June 12, 2005. Hi talks about his childhood, his mother who gave him away for adoption and the new parents who had to promise to send him to College. [...]

Robert S. McNamara is a former Harvard Professor, WW2 Officer, President of FORD, Secretary of Defense and Head of the World Bank. In the documentary “The Fog of War” he reports about major events during his live and how small decisions sometimes led to great effects. Including the bombing of Japan in WW2, his role [...]

Who is this famous boxer who one the title in the WBC, WBA and IBF? Mike Tyson was once the most famous and successful boxer in the world. Mike was the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old.  but his life was not allways easy. This Mike Tyson [...]

This shocking Biography about America’s former Vice-President Dick Cheney really changes the way you look back on the presidency of George W. Bush. Cheney’s remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form. Elected for a second term, he continues to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the [...]

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born on July 6th 1946. He is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Stallone has played two famous characters: Rocky Balboa, the boxer who overcame all odds to fight for love and glory, and John Rambo, a courageous soldier who specialized in very violent rescue and revenge missions. [...]

From a childhood in “Shangri-La” to a life in exile, BIOGRAPHY presents the riveting, life-affirming journey of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. One of the world’s most admired men, he is the spiritual and secular leader of a nation that exists only as a “Lost Kingdom.” Born Tenzin Gyatso, he is the 14th Dalei Kama, [...]

Cat Stevens is one of the most popular artists in the music business of our time. He had many albums in the top 10 and sold millions of albums. But Cat Stevens got also famous for his transformation from Christianity over Buddhism, Hinduism and Numerology over the the religion of islam. He even changed his [...]