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.

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard, all that is left of Leonora, the love of...

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole...

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passi...

When, in a very strict Catholic school, a teacher enters a bathroom and surprises two students engag...

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused ...

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels...

Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in publ...

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrim...

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a b...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in pr...

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...

When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combin...

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

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

Spanish jurist and republican thinker Antonio García-Trevijano (1927-2018) expounds his political th...

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee f...

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristoc...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...