Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernicus' thesis that the Earth revolves around the sun.

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

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

Fatima, a teacher living her elite life in Karachi, shattered, when her nanny Nusrat, inexplicably d...

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Mea...

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight...

Renzo and Roberto Rossellini - Two Brothers on their Journey towards the Unknown, sharing a life tog...

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball ...

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem...

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and N...

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal...