A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.

Seventeen-year-old Ginia leaves the countryside in search of a new life in Turin. Restless and seeki...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a d...

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be...

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he ...

During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-wa...

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Eliza...

The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a ban...

Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude ...

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

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mans...

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

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle fl...

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to p...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...