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 semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-kno...

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame ...

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

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

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy unt...

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem...

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside hom...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family ...

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

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

The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his elev...

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

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passi...