In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep...
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a ...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from menta...
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor'...
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a ge...
A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoen...
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a h...
In the 1970s, Mark Vonnegut, son of renowned sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut, leads his friends out of N...