Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) ambassador to the United States of America. After he opens the embassy, he is unable to invite statesmen to visit him. Haji fires the embassy staff due to the inability of the Persian government to meet the embassy's needs. One night he is visited by President Grover Cleveland.

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An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops for...

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell ...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer a...

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his ...

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out h...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br...

The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his w...

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the ...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contes...

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...