Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutionary French general. The son of a nobleman, Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, and an African slave, Marie-Cessette Dumas, he became the first and highest-ranking Black leader in the French military and served under Napoleon Bonaparte. But despite his many exploits, which earned him the nickname of “Black Devil,” his role in the French Revolution was underplayed and he was even denied a full pension and legion of honor by Bonaparte.

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...

An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, whi...

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prom...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Kore...

An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as ...

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — ...

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

In 1966, stage director Mike Nichols journeys from Broadway to Hollywood to make his first film, Who...
In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams ...

In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becom...