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.

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of th...
The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about cre...

In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, sh...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

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

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

Struggling to get home to her stranded baby, a young mother in Amsterdam receives an emergency alert...

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

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a...