A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – ...

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage ru...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

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

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc.,...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

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...

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unh...

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened ...

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...

After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight a...

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...

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

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...