Documentaries : Biography

Derren Brown An Evening of Wonders: More 'magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship' from psychological illusionist extraordinaire Derren Brown. Here Derren brings his mind-bending powers to the stage for his live show AN EVENING OF WONDERS. The show fuses Derren's established slei...

Revealing look at a unique personality. His showmanship and steadfastness to his beliefs are admirably brought out. But the fact that he remained a showman to the end of his days, putting on a face in public, meant that maybe we never will get to see the man behind the show-man. Somehow get the...

In Remembrance of Martin Documentary...

Dimitri Yannakos, also known as Parvas, spends the last winter of his life in Chora, a village on the island of Amorgos. He divides his time between his garden and the coffee shop he runs with his wife and daughter...

A filmmaker trying to memorialize his murdered friend discovers that the woman who killed him was pregnant with his late friend's son....

Louise Hay has made a life out of healing people on their own steam. She has lead the way since the 1980s on how you can heal your own life. At the forefront of the self-help field, Hay has become a Matriarchal figure to many now in the business of self-help. In the 1980s Louise Hay self-published Y...

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34....

It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for ...

BBC Documentary profiling the life of legendary country music star Johnny Cash, who died in 2003 shortly after completing the retrospective Unearthed, a five-CD set of the acoustic performances with which he resurrected his career....

David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before?...