Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
It's cold up on Mount Manjaca. "In the winter it snows, there's nowhere to go," says the central fig...

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and decep...

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the even...

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him....

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends wh...

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infa...

A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in ...

"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter...

In the mountains of the Ötztal, the wealthy Fender (Eduard Köck) and Wally (Heath Hatheyer), his onl...

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, dau...

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escap...

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding...

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem b...

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into ...

Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British indus...

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchm...
Two vacationing couples lend assistance to an injured man. This good deed leads them into their wors...

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for hi...