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.

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...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

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

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

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

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...

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

In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visi...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge find...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a...

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle...

An adaptation of the J.P. Sartre story "Le Mur". What goes on in his mind and what happens outside ...