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 life of Moses as told through the Book of Exodus, the imagination of a dying boy, and the ballad...

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

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

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

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

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

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

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

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along...

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...

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he enco...

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colon...

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first succe...