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.

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...

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame ...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of...

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises,...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at th...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch...

On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agr...