Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his project, hoping for the huge profits the venture promises. Ceplis soon becomes infatuated with his office typist Austra Zīle and starts neglecting the business...

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen par...

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

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

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...

February 1927: Félix Leclerc's last year with his family before attending a private college in the f...

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-kno...

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangster...

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an appar...

A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.

In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dance...

Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian si...

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on t...

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity...

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one ...

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...