In 1936 Sweden, a teenager drifts through life in his small town, hoping that a novel about the neighborhood he grew up and lives in will reverse the fortunes of his family.

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...

In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, sh...

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to th...

Dr. Sadik Ahmet fights for the democratic rights of the Western Thrace Turkish minority living in Gr...

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly ch...
In the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII, Awa ...

When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside do...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...

In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visi...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...