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.
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back th...
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theoph...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the li...
A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the m...
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry ch...
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in...
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...
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of ...
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana s...