Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helen plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.

Days before his birthday and weeks before his wedding, Tate Bradley, a twenty-five year old, African...

In 1870 Friendship, Wisconsin, a small town of Scandinavian settlers still suffering the repercussio...

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 193...

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted ...
Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.

Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal ...

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point ...

Peter Ashbury is a young man who lives on Palm Beach, Sydney, with an expensive wife Mary and house ...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

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

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...