In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.

Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to...

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with...

Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 m...

This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly c...

Cecily is a lovely young woman, so lovely in fact people can't help but be drawn to her beauty. This...

A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presi...

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on acc...

Lovable goon Munna falls for a morning radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who also runs an elders' ho...

In the manner of a well run Greek tragedy, leaving aside one of its components, dragging in its pass...

1780, a group of slaves flee from a sugar cane hacienda. As they are pursued by Don Manuel Aguirre,...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor ...

In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally...

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Alon...

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic...

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes f...

The film concerns the life of King Naresuan, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma. Bo...

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoo...

The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).

Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Mu...