This is a fictional love story with the 1856 Handcart Pioneers as the backdrop. Sam Hunter, falls for a Mormon Pioneer woman, Abigail, as she is moving west. As the pioneers stop in his town of Iowa City, he pretends to desire joining the Mormon Church to show his love for Abigail. As hardships prevail, his faith is tested on their way to Zion.

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unh...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

Were the eleven official witnesses—twelve if you include Joseph Smith himself—of the Book of Mormon ...

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury o...

A father and daughter who have been estranged by divorce for twelve years find themselves on a trip ...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, t...