
Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against t...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find ...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C....

A new era is about to begin in Eastern Europe. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone and m...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...

Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Mi...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

A film biography of Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...