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.

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

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A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

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...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

The early days of the future genius of Spanish cinema Luis García Berlanga, from his birth in Valenc...

Prisoners await execution by firing squad when they are captured during the Spanish Civil War in thi...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an internation...