At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

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

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Raised in the South African township of Zamelda, Johannes 'JoJo' Radebe faced prejudice as a young b...

A pair of short ballets, written for the screen, filmed and performed by artists of the Georgian SSR...

Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dance...

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

A dance group rehearses for their latest performance Inabitáveis about black homosexuality. While th...

The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World ...

After being tricked into dropping everything to save her grandmother's farm, big-city chef Oliwia fa...

In the 1970s, old gangster moll Lou Rolfe is confronted with her involvement in the St. Valentine's ...