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.

Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel g...

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,...

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resol...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...

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

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the f...

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and mainta...

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans co...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the...