Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music.

Mugabe rises from being a prisoner to power as a guerrilla fighter but gradually becomes the world's...

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

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's ...

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor hea...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...