About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...

Algimantas Puipa directed this 1997 drama about a painter wrestling with childhood memories of his f...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional ...

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...
Jerzy Kosiński, author of The Painted Bird and Being There, sees his life and literary career unrave...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...