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

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-b...

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.
The story of the great strike of the workers building the Cervena Skala - Mergecany railway line

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

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

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...

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in...

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)...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art...

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

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

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

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

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...