Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the area extensively during the mid 19th century and created a map of the island that included parts which had been ignored by earlier cartographers. He visited Ainu communities and compiled records of the large numbers of the population who had been conscripted for forced labor far from their homes. Matsuura suggested the name Hokkaido for the area

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an ...

A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild or...

The story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when ...

A tragic love story based in the life of the great latin american boxer Edwin "El Inca" Valero.

Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admi...

In 1793, after enduring three and a half years of mounting persecution of the Church by the architec...

When 30-ish rich kid Lenny has to take care of 15-year-old David, who’s suffering from heart disease...

The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat ...

Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and ...

Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest ca...

The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the endu...

In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force i...

The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be ...

In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the...

A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an ...

Computer-generated imagery and other visualization techniques reveal how it would look if all the wa...

After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their na...

Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who ap...