Helen Ryan

Letters from Baghdad

• 2017
• TV-PG
• 1h 35m
• Biography, Documentary, History

• 6.9

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

The Elephant Man

• 1980
• PG
• 2h 4m
• Biography, Drama

• 8.2

In Victorian London, a surgeon named Frederick Treves pays to examine John Merrick, a severely deformed man displayed in a traveling freak show. Treves assumes Merrick cannot speak or think. He is wrong. As the two men spend more time together, a friendship develops, and Merrick is revealed as a person of profound intelligence, sensitivity, and dignity. A biographical drama about what it means to see another human being clearly. The film is shot in black and white by David Lynch.