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 the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno...
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 dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia fee...
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...
Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusin...
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a g...
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
Set in the early part of 20th century Europe. There lived a dancer who becomes the romantic bone of ...
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the...
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 ...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...