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.

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal t...

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 19...
In early 1900s Surrey, fifty women labeled as typhoid carriers face unjust confinement at Long Grove...

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...

A small house is devastated by the irrepressible force of the Ñuble river. Anita is rescued from the...

On a northern Italian farm, Batistì and his wife decide to send their son Minec to school, sacrific...

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

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 week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...