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.

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...

Portrait of a homosexual bohemian who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and was captured by the ...

Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In ...

Lars Levi Laestadius (1800-1861), founded a Lutheran revival movement in the early 19th century in t...

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity tak...

Film based loosely on the life of Mexican drug kingpin Ricardo Lopez.

The story of the reliability of the Malaysian Women's Basketball team which has collected 13 gold me...

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end...

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a ...

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...

To be the first in history of mankind to take a sailing vessel to the Pole. One of the greatest mari...

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman...

At age ten, Paolo asks his mother he wants to meet his father, an unknown soccer player who retired ...

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It ...

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scar...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...