Biography

Who was Jack the Ripper? A retired detective investigates the murder trail and believes he might have found out who the serial killer was.

Fly Colt Fly: Legend of the Barefoot Bandit details the story about Colton Harris-Moore and his seemingly superhuman ability to repeatedly escape capture.

Tony Robinson sets out to sift the fact from the fiction on whether Robin Hood, the legendary dispossessed nobleman hiding out in Sherwood Forest did actually exist.

Never Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki is an intimate look into legendary illustrator Hayao Miyazaki's life as he ventures through his new interest in digital animation, and his constant attempts to outdo himself.

The Lobotomist is a biographical-styled documentary film which follows the story of Walter J. Freeman, a neurologist who fathered the lobotomy - a surgical procedure which usually ended in tragedy.

This documentary charts the career of legendary French comic book artist and movie visionary, Moebius.

Geologist Iain Stewart retraces the lives of scientist and geologists who reshaped our geological world view.

A biographical documentary taking a look at Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and how he lead troops at Fredericksburg, both battles at Bull Run, and Chancellorsville.

Rupert Everett travels in the footsteps of Lord Byron – sex explorer, celebrity, and the original ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’ hero of the Romantic movement.

He has been called America's own Robin Hood, yet he robbed both rich and poor, and was never seen to share his ill-gotten gains. Experience the true story of the legendary outlaw Jesse James.

Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a biography-styled documentary which seeks to understand the writer Hunter S. Thompson and his gonzo journalism.

One of the most iconic personalities in history, Alexander the Great was also one of its greatest commanders, who expanded his father's realm from Macedonia to Egypt and India. This miniseries explores the legacy of Alexander the Great.

This educational biography of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace tells the story of two independent discoveries of the natural origin of species: the Theory of Evolution.

In this unique, compelling film, those who knew Francis Bacon speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of the artist.