Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the ...

Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in th...

In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband ...

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...

During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a sec...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, s...

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewe...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the s...

A Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan music...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....