Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri A...

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...

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...

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of ...

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. ...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport ...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 19...

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...