In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

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

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Cha...

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tr...

In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent...

Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Ke...

A cocky U.S. Army Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female...