Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

In 1930s England, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her eccentric family struggle to survive in a d...

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of r...

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of al...

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnervi...

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...

A short opera about the assassination of poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca at the hands of Na...

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee f...

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristoc...

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a...

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Q...