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.

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

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

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who...

Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

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

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control...

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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

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

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

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)...

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

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

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

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