In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a C...

The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good plann...

During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for ...

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his...

The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a w...

While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are tr...

A scholarly Vatican priest is tasked with investigating an extraordinary 'miracle': his brother Abel...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

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

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputati...

After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daug...

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...
25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One d...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He bel...

Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brot...

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody...