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Crippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled, however, he must choose one of them over the other.

The historian and travel writer Charles Nicholl pursues the trail of the enigmatic poet Arthur Rimbaud into the Horn of Africa. In February 1891, in Aden, Rimbaud developed what he initially thought was arthritis in his right knee. It failed to respond to treatment, and by March had become so painful that he prepared to return to France for better treatment.

Palden Gyatso (born 1933 in Panam, Tibet) is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who was born in Tibet in 1933. During the Chinese invasion of Tibet he was arrested for protesting and spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps. After his release in 1992 he fled to Dharamsala, (North India) in exile. He is still a practicing monk and political activist, traveling the world publicizing the cause of Tibet. This interview made by Annie Lennox has been produced in 1998 for Amnesty International.

About Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion in Dec.1979 begun. Border unrest, trade routes blocked and the Afghan mujahideen is about to take up arms against the intruder.

About the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. She died at Moritzburg, near Dresden, in April 1945, shortly before the end of WWII. As the film begins she is an old woman in the last months of her life, contemplating death. Using words taken from her diaries and letters, she looks back over her life and work.

A look at the work of composer Cornelius Cardew.

During the Great War (WWI) and in its aftermath many German artists like George Grosz, Emil Nolde and Otto Dix became politically involved. This film uses their art and their own words to explore that volatile period in Germany. The Weimar Republic, established between the end of World War I and the Nazi rise to power, was a thriving laboratory of art and culture. As the country experienced unprecedented and often tumultuous social, economic, and political upheaval, many artists rejected Expressionism in favor of a new realism to capture this emerging society.