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.

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary pla...

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of Americ...

A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage...

During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces...

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army ...

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...

About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar...

A son sets out to look for the man responsible for his father's disappearance, which is connected to...

An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal...

Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance ...

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist ar...

Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the mo...

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken...

The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who help...

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and sci...

The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and b...

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of An...

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto ...

The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, t...