Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.

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...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

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 ...

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored...

When Mandie Shaw is thrust into Miss Heathwood’s School for Girls, she struggles to grasp the school...

The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with he...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, lik...

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...