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.

Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce...

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
GDR 1961: Tamara Bunke, daughter of Jewish exiles from Argentina, not only falls for the political g...

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...

A Haitian son returns from fifteen years in Cuba to find his home village afflicted with the double ...

In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young...

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British ...

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide ...

In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub own...

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit as...

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York t...

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without comp...

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

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

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