In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his ...
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug deale...
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local...
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love...
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon f...
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino....