
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

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

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

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present da...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

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...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...