In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristoc...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

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

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up ...

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

Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet...

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...

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

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newc...

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. ...

When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam ...