1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude so much that she breaks off her engagement to Sibley's son Sam. Meanwhile, John and Rose elope.

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

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...

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 celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business a...

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supre...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a ...

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

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...