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Featuring a diverse range of modern artists and their works, Modern Art Explorer takes young readers on an undercover adventure to discover the stories behind famous works. Witty and brilliantly illustrated, Modern Art Explorer is an approachable introduction to modern art for ch...

1918, and the Great War is almost over. Desperate for one last chance at promotion, an ambitious lieutenant, Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle, sends two scouts over the top of the trenches, and contrives to shoot them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more. And so is set...

Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens/John Hull, a police officer who goes undercover as the partner of a dangerously ambitious coca...

Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drai...

Brigitte Bardot is one of the most iconic actresses of all time, and this four-film collection brings together some of her most memorable performances. She is a dance-crazed schoolgirl in the wildly colorful Naughty Girl (1956), co-written by her husband Roger Vadim (And God Crea...

OSS 117 is unleashed: During a scuba diving in Corsica, an American agent disappears. The Secret Service sends Hubert Bonisseur of Bath.

Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings...

"Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance). [He] discovers that his neighbors are only too read...

The first of what Luis Buñuel later proclaimed a trilogy (along with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty) about 'the search for truth', The Milky Way (La Voie Lactée) daringly deconstructs contemporary and traditional views on Catholicism with ribal...

Rescapés du chaos de la Grande Guerre, Albert et Edouard comprennent que le pays ne veut plus d'eux. La France glorifie ses morts et oublie les survivants. Condamnés à l'exclusion, et refusant de céder à l'amertume, ils imaginent, ensemble, une arnaque gigantesque qui va met...

A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology...

When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically elimina...

"Le rêve de Nyota est exaucé. Un uniforme flambant neuf, un vaisseau Rap-ACE, un droïde 1-6-PiD ... Le voilà enfin Surveillant des Étoiles! Sa première assignation officielle ne se fait pas attendre sur Ti-KL, la terre s'est mise à trembler frénétiquement. Quel mystère ...

Popular songs recorded in concert at L'Olympia, Montréal, and at Wild Sky Studio, Morin Heights, interspersed with interview footage.

Arctic Meltdown is a three part series that documents the drastic changes in Canada's north. Global warming is opening a wealth of business opportunities there, but can the arctic's sensitive ecosystems handle the strain of all this industry?

Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher, dream of big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape.

"Avril 1940. Louise, trente ans, court, nue, sur le boulevard du Montparnasse. Pour comprendre la scène tragique qu'elle vient de vivre, elle devra plonger dans la folie d'une période sans équivalent dans l'histoire, où la France tout entière, saisie par la panique, sombre d...

Cactus swing: A fanciful sunset jamboree is staged by dancing cacti and assorted desert critters. Log driver's waltz: Kate and Anna McGarrigle sing about a young girl's love for a log driver. Get a job: Bob Dog finds himself out of work. The ride: A tycoon and his chauffeur ta...