Germany, 1945. The War is over, and it has left a slew of devastated families in its wake. Among them are Maria and her mother, two refugees who find themselves working on a farm in the German countryside after they are forced out of their home by violence and political upheaval. It is there that little Maria makes an unlikely friend: an American soldier — an enemy soldier — who, through one act of unnecessary kindness, teaches Maria and her family a powerful lesson in compassion and humanity during the most inhumane of times.
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 ...
Brilliant mathematician, John Nash, is on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangl...
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the governmen...