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.

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Val...

On March 2, 1955, like every day, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old black girl from Alabama, bought he...

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at th...

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...

After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerg...

The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore ...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns t...

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...

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

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...

A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), fa...

A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production...

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene:...

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden ...

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...