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.

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

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forc...
25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One d...

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

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

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

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

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

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

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

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

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

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, ...

An original semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama very loosely inspired by Max Hechtman's adoles...

Dwight and his sister Jessie reach a crossroads over what to do about their little brother Thomas, a...

In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mon...

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...

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

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.