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 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

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 ...

The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slo...

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious fi...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists du...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide ...

Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed ...

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving b...

A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck d...