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.

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When sh...

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of ...

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot ...
A television production based on Bozena Slančíková-Timrava's short stories about social and moral co...

In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, un...

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to th...

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)...

Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings...

Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dan...

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

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...

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

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

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

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living ...

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

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...