Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where t...

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tri...

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to f...

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia d...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes...

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...

Sixteen-year-old Anne grows up in the isolated Biesbosch area, where spacious fields and power pylon...

In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the ...