Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...

In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by bl...

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...

In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots ...

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th...

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he enco...

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a s...

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial ...

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most elig...