The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

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...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

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...

Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absen...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

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

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in ...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...