British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – ...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight a...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photograp...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...