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When a visionary architect and his wife flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern United States, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious, wealthy client.

Follows Catherine Ravenscroft, a television documentary journalist whose work has been built on revealing the transgressions of long-respected institutions.

James Bond tries to stop an organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Three siblings are searching for their father and maybe for themselves.

In this series critic and writer Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional review that the European Renaissance originated in southern Europe, advocating a case for the north instead.

The tragic love story between marble-quarry owner Mario and Luisa, daughter of one of his employees.

When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, a lonely man finds himself caught up in a night of intrigue, where no one can be trusted.

Peppe and Antonio decide to return to Sicily and leave Turin, after having problems with the local mafia. But the trip to Sicily is full of obstacles and difficulties of all kinds.

Nymphs and gods and their foul play.

Vehicle for the popular Hans Albers, as a confident, cynical engineer in 1905 Canada suspected of trying to sabotage construction of a water project.

The Piccirilli Factor explores the legacy of Italian sculptors who contributed to the emergence of public art in the United States. The idea for this film came about during the production of Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor.

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-Arab attitude of European culture. The images, mostly a series of Italian landscape shots, provide a backdrop that highlights the meaning of the text.

An oriental woman loved by a European troubadour. A married man haunted by his wife's betrayal that one day led by overthrowing all odds. A father and daughter wrapped in the shadow of incest.

Although he looks like a man, Amadeo Rossi has a child's soul. Like a child, he would like to pursue his dreams and live his life as if it were a game. Yet, this is something that adults are not allowed to do, since they are afraid of wasting time. Amadeo's life will have a meaning when he manages to find his own way towards a perfect world, the same world that a bad but much admired Minister has already invented (and built). This world will be the magical place where Jennifer will speak to him at last, as if in a dream within a dream. However, Minister Ovitac's world will only and secretly open its doors to his most faithful servants; the Uomo Samargantico will be able to enter it, too, although nobody knows who this mysterious man might be, or whether he really exists. Who is going to accompany Amadeo throughout his other-worldly journey? Among these people are Mr Sunny, a spiritual guide, and Dr Panzerotti, who sells miraculous water, and many other barkers who will intermittently lead him miles away from, or near a world consisting in a disarming daily round. Will then such a dream-hunter be capable of bearing so much normalcy?

Aboard their cart, Doctor Rabarbaro and his assistant Tosse travel from house to house to cure absurd illnesses with their ingenious remedies.

A sculpture comes alive in clay, dies in plaster, and reborn in marble. The intense process that precedes a sculptor taking a chisel to stone has rarely been documented. Experience the many steps it takes before a new work is immortalized in marble.

Korin is a character-driven adventure movie. A "Deliverance" meets Tarkovskij's "Stalker" meets Apocalypse Now. The documentary follows Iieas and concepts behind the movie through interviews with director, writers, director of photography and designers. You will discover location, first design sketches and the preproduction process.

The marble caves in Carrara.

Filmed in Italy and Colorado, this documentary, produced by CPT12PBS, reveals the fascinating life story of neo-classical sculptor Jefferson Rubin. Jefferson named the male and female torsos that he created Frammenti. His work was at once classical and contemporary. Jefferson D. Rubin was a brilliant young artist whose humanistic and classical art embraced the poetry of sculpture that descends from ancient and Renaissance antecedents. A Colorado native, he studied and worked in the United States and Italy, and was founder, director, and principal teacher of La Scuola Classical Sculpture School in Denver. Rubin exhibited in galleries and museums across the country and abroad, and his rare pieces are prized in many private collections. He died in a tragic mountain accident in August 1995 at the age of 36.