In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...
When a harassed movie director takes it on his wife, the battered wife is faced with how long can sh...
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr...
Survival and paranoia will be the forces that destroy a bond between two recruits when their camp's ...
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie fac...
In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to de...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges ...
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search...
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The...
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame ...
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by b...
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle B...
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspe...
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...