Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.

11-year-old Ena meets a young fisherman in a port. He gives her an eel and they arrange to meet the ...

A very skilful young architect from Berlin, Lea Winter, who has a promising career, is pregnant with...

Set in 1964, a three-day journey along Route 66 begins when Bobby Falls, a 19-year-old serial killer...

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, broodi...

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a desti...

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps inte...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous ...

A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he pr...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate s...
The life of a Romanian Orthodox Priest, who went from a hard childhood in godless, communist Romania...

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape ...

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drift...

When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's...

A lonely and elderly widower struggles to come to terms with the loss of his wife and the circumstan...