The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.

Years after the death of their parents, two stepbrothers reunite to steal bronze epitaphs from cemet...

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and sci...

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...

A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to cr...

The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than ...

The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and b...

During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp...

A mute, aspiring actor joins forces with a man who has a powerful voice. Together they take the film...

In an isolated farmhouse, located in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by a mysterious wooden wal...

As Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the...

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto ...

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific intere...

A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becom...

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her f...

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand ...

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge b...

222 A.D. During yet another decadent party, Emperor Heliogabalus recalls his former lover Zotikos fr...

A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of A...

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beau...

Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in hono...