At a time when most females in Asia possess little or no power over their lives, headstrong Kurmanjan Datka defies her family's authority -- and ultimately becomes the ruler of her native Kyrgyzstan region.
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...
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...
A story of ambition, love, betrayal and greed.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...
A 15-year-old boy murders his mother and sister. The father, Nin Yuen, returns to his cafe, haunted ...
Vienna, at the close of World War II. An intriguing relationship between a priest and a wealthy Jewi...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...