After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.
An inspiring biopic about the legendary skier Elena Vyalbe. Born in a small town in the north of Rus...
From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. Thi...
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of peo...
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after h...
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to...
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family wi...
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pa...
The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about cre...
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced ...
By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin...
A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...
An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic...
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World ...
A story of passion, rivalry, love, and friendship. Jan Banas, acclaimed Silesian football player of ...
1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's b...
In 1904, the Kazakh wrestler Hajja Mukan, inspired by the successes of the Russian hero Ivan Poddubn...