Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet ...
When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talen...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety ...
The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college.
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gol...
A film about a man with a breakthrough history of Poland in the background. Edward Gierek is one of ...
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a targe...
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys wes...
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
The film is about the life and death of the outstanding playwright Alexander Vampilov. Life and deat...
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Gol...
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless aband...
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize hi...