When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for ...

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the s...

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t...

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri A...

Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining villa...

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is ...

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel g...

Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among...

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Gri...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...