The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

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

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

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

High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetual...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

Burgundy, France, end of 1945. On the day of his 15th birthday, Louis receives a very special gift f...

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hun...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

In an idyllic Italian village, a young American girl on the threshold of adolescence is swept into a...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in t...

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness...