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.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

A-Hu, who is born into a small family during an economic crisis. His mother works at recycling with ...

A nurse's aid, Cathy lives alone. Too alone. When her sister, with whom she's had a falling-out, cal...

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

Fifteen-year-old Sarah has returned to Colmar, where she has taken up high-performance figure skatin...

In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Se...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...