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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

It is 1920, political unrest is growing in Prague and the Social Democrats are about to betray their...

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

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on t...

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...