Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

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 ...

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

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...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects wit...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who most ably exem...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased ...

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman...