Biography

8 episodes

The famous American choreographer, dancer, director, screenwriter and actor Bob Fosse, who staged some cult movies, could not have achieved world-wide fame without his wife, partner and muse Gwen Verdon. She was a talented dancer and creative director who invented the unique style of Fosse and made him a real star. The series “Fosse/Verdon” tells about the life and work of two creative people who had a great influence on American cinema and theater.
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1872 Scholars from Oxford, desperate to compile a comprehensive and comprehensive English dictionary, entrust this overwhelming task to Professor James Murray (Mel Gibson), a self-taught enthusiast from Scotland. He, assessing the scale of the enterprise, decides to resort to the help of the collective mind and throws the cry to all parts of Britain with a call to send him the words written out from the books explaining their meaning and origin. The most valuable assistant of Murray is a certain William Minor (Sean Penn), whose letters are delivered literally in bags. Having decided to get acquainted with the mysterious correspondent, the professor discovers that Minor is a former American military doctor, now imprisoned in the infamous Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. (more…)

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The mother had three sons: the oldest talented, but lazy; the middle one – of a close mind, but also lazy; and the youngest is on his own mind. Plus to the sons there was a daughter, 16 years old. “The Durrells “series is an autobiographical story centered on the younger Durrell, who was notable for his increased love for the animal world. The events unfold in 1938 and the action takes place in Greece, where the Durrells moved from England, where life for them, to put it mildly, had no luck, for many reasons. (more…)

The main character of the movie “A Private War” is the world-famous war correspondent Marie Colvin. She visited many hot spots of our planet and, despite all the horror she saw there, she was drawn there again and again. Kosovo, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka. In the last place the heroine lost her eyes and was forced to put on a black bandage. But even this did not stop Marie and now she is going to the most dangerous place on the planet – the besieged Syrian city of Homs. (more…)

After graduating from high school, the main heroine of the movie “On the Basis of Sex” Ruth, and the former best student of the course, became a law school professor and would hold this position for many years. It is because no one law firm wants to take her: it’s not a woman’s job to go through the courts. Everything will change when her husband, Martin, a successful lawyer in tax law, suddenly stumbles upon an interesting case. (more…)

The movie introduces you to the deft American politician Dick Cheney, who resurrected many times after “political death” (he left the top leadership posts in the state and re-conquered them), and once managed to deceive physical death. After watching the movie “Vice” you will learn how Cheney managed to fool his contemporaries and make the world much more dangerous than he had been just recently. But this movie is not only about Cheney, but about his era. (more…)

The movie sheds light on the legendary friendship of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the last years of their career and will show the final segment of the life and work of popular comedy film actors, who have lost their place in the film industry at the request of time, and who are forced to earn on tour and live concerts. While the “Stan & Ollie” introductory prologue shows the team at its peak in 1937, most of the story takes place in 1953, during a tour of a couple’s music hall in the UK, at a time when their future in the comedy was uncertain, and the partnership, both on stage and beyond, has been severely tested. (more…)

10 episodes

Biographical series “American Soul” tells about the personal and professional life of the American entrepreneur, producer and TV presenter Don Cornelius. In 1971, the Soul Train music program appeared on American television, broadcasting performances of various musical genres: rhythm and blues, soul and hip-hop, sometimes funk, jazz, disco and gospel. The show was aired until 2006, by which time more than 1,100 issues had been filmed.
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The history of Lizzie Bordon still stirs human minds, although more than 125 years have passed since that ill-fated August 1892. Stepmother and Liziz’s father received more than a dozen blows with an ax each; Crime, evidence collection, court. The process was so famous that a century later, American kids can still read without hesitation the rhyme about Lizzie Bordon and the blows of an ax. (more…)

At 28, he came to painting. And in 37 years he passed away. Completely gone. Forever and ever. Nine years of creative activity. Is it a lot or a little? There are over 2000 paintings. Crazy numbers. Absolutely not real. Unsustainable to common sense. But it is so. Got rich? Only 14 works were sold during his lifetime. For 9 years – 14 paintings. The cash equivalent of the payout is mere pennies. (more…)