Sarah Rector, an African-American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends, and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming among the nation's first female African-American millionaires—at eleven years old.

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a sho...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what s...

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

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

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

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the ...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...