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.

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...

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)...

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan ...

In early 20th century Europe, a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between two men, a hu...

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

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

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian p...

They grew up in the land of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are burned...

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...

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

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

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...

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

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

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

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...