Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.

On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man's drive to resist the Nazis sets a new c...

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Fatima, a teacher living her elite life in Karachi, shattered, when her nanny Nusrat, inexplicably d...

In 1763, Britain defeated France in the worldwide Seven Years War - referred to in the American Colo...

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order t...

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – ...

Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the...

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the ...

Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to cr...

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...
The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about cre...

Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as h...

Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. ...

Three bachelor brothers—Fadly, Kifly, and Ahmad—were asked by their parents to have a joint wedding ...

Mrs. Sookie Poole, of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off her daughter and is looking forward...

Discover the story of the father of the gang: Mauricio de Sousa, Brazil’s most important comic artis...