Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the...

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

One of the first ‘frogmen’ in the Navy Reserve fights to survive missions behind enemy lines and his...

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

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

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

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

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...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis ...