In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados.
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes...
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented ...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk,...
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio...
Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to pow...
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him du...
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational s...
Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in...