The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in P...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

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

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...