On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GDR refused obedience to their political leadership. The story takes place in Bitterfeld and tells the story of a family involved in the political events around 17 June.
Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppr...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

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

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon...

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family...

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in...

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, broodi...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmae...

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock sc...

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to ...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau...

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-ol...