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.

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's ...

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

In 1904, the Kazakh wrestler Hajja Mukan, inspired by the successes of the Russian hero Ivan Poddubn...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...

The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood ...

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – ar...

Director James Toback takes an unflinching, uncompromising look at the life of Mike Tyson--almost so...

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his...

It is 1945. Enrico Piaggio’s Pontedera factory is in ruins and the 12,000 people who worked there ar...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disg...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt t...

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hu...

Biopic about legendary Turkmen philosopher and poet, Makhtoumkuli, who was also known as Fragi.

United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their f...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

In late XIX century, rich and bored Maria (Paola Senatore) is after a more sexually interesting life...

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...