When Ernest Shackleton is given the ship Endurance to reclaim the record for the furthest south expedition, his journey is cut short when his ship becomes trapped in the ice pack and begins to sink.

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of th...

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

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's in...

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a l...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while i...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. However, Shrek wan...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice exte...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...