In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

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

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

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

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people...

In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor beco...

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

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who most ably exem...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or i...

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening ...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his h...