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.

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

Nombeko Mayeki is a young woman from Soweto who finds herself caught in an international whirlwind f...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against ap...

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: I...

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...

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the ...

Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the Steeds struggle to hold together as th...

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...

French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages...

A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troub...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises t...

During the Japanese invasion of China, a young Indian doctor joins the Chinese resistance, meets and...

Brighton is a delightful short film capturing the joy of family, travel, and living in the moment. S...

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfi...