The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.

During a football training, two friends celebrate a goal effusively, which causes an unexpected reac...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

When the victim of a violent hate attack joins a gay gun club, he finds himself caught between two r...

In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowner...

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is r...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Events take place in an isolated mountaineous village where a rabid dog bites the son of Fatime. The...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

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

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loo...

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

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...