Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

Eritrea is under Ethopian occupation and there's to be a revolution. The enslaved and followers who dream of freedom will rise up unde...

Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...

Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...

In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...

Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...

It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...

Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...

A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...

Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...

Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...

Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...

Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...