This documentary about Charlie Chaplin focuses on his late years when he lived with his family in a village on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. His personal life and his love for the circus are depicted as well as the late works of his professional career, including his extensive work as a composer. In addition, the film reveals the Swiss intelligence agency's file on Chaplin. Featu...
Interviewing a group of artists who had collaborated with Max Ophuls, the German Tv documentarian presents the late director as an inspiration and influence for upcoming filmmakers of a new generation.
A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated and hosted by Peter Ustinov and written by Nigel Calder, the film takes place at the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory where a staff of renowned physicists take both Ustinov and the viewer through a hands-on experience of the exciting facets of Einstein's Theory of Genera...
In this travelogue, Sir Peter Ustinov, who played Dame Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot six times, journeys across Europe aboard the world famous Orient Express train, the setting of Poirot's most famous adventure.
An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from poison experts, policeman and pathologists and members of her family.
