The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a ve...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ic...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding...

Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night sh...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood ca...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who most ably exem...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...