The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are never heard from again.

The film traces the life of Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe, a Zeybek (active as an outlaw in the region enclos...

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

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Ma...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

In Berlin, Selim suddenly gets to accompany the famous opera diva Maikki Järnefelt to a concert. Des...

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

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

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...

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional ...

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...

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

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

About the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin, his connection with his native country, its peop...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Colorful life of 19th century Lithuanian country side, is what Jurgis experiences when he meets a bo...

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th...