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.

Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to ...

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fightin...

A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the ...

Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought...

Biography of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura follows his life beginning as a youngster to election as ...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daugh...

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na...

After the loss of her husband, comedienne Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa must discover a way t...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitut...

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

Cult leader Warren Jeffs rises to power in the polygamist Mormon sect once headed by his late father...

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...

After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring....

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...