Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.

In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, sh...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking s...

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...

1936. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts betwee...

The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting m...

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristoc...

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnervi...

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard, all that is left of Leonora, the love of...

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old sec...

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Q...

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-b...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...