Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was...

Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are ...

Consumed with the monotony of her domestic life, a lonely housewife is forced onto tranquilizers to ...

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds...

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens jo...

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican mini...

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clot...

Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of...

The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After...

John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enem...

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts th...

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...

Felix Funicello is a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette...

The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a ti...

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Minist...

Connects seven stories of children facing different forms of violence, exploring how unresolved chil...
An ordinary couple offer refuge to a Jewish perfume salesman during the Nazi occupation of the Nethe...

On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronti...