The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide t...
Babhruvahana, like Arjuna at the beginning of the Kurukshetra war, faces a moral dilemma. Can he ris...
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio...
Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to pow...
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...
In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden unde...
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...
A young lieutenant must persuade a captive resistance fighter to betray his comrades, or enforce a l...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk,...
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fam...
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...