Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the other breaks into the Social Democratic press, where he gets the chance to watch up close how the Social Democratic leadership deceives its members and enters the service of the ruling classes. And a newly-trained journalist solves the problem of whether he should also adapt to the corrupt environment...

A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling ...

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923...

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with...

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed w...

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respe...

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himal...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920'...

Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian si...

The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controvers...

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...

Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and priv...

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession...

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangster...

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attem...

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...