In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woma...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincin...

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

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular a...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

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

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

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g...

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

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...