A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

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

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 ...

1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing...

Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is...

Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the ...

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is r...

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...

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

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in P...

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor beco...

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district a...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...