In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Pa...

After Partition, a large group of farmers from East Bengal have to migrate to Calcutta.

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government t...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first succe...

Factory workers in 1947 repair a bridge over Song Hua River so that Communist forces can use it.

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...

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

The life of Moses as told through the Book of Exodus, the imagination of a dying boy, and the ballad...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

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

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

Follows the Bulgarian people's struggle for national independence in the period from 1875 to the Lib...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...