Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.

In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accu...

German TV movie chronicling the life of singer and actor Roy Black.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

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...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

Chicherin - Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat, first People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of t...

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...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon ...

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