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 lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue ...

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

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoo...

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 1927: Félix Leclerc's last year with his family before attending a private college in the f...

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

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

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

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one ...

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

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle B...

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a ...