The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rights of her people, especially women. Flawed yet resilient, Whina tells the story of a woman formed by tradition, compelled by innovation, and guided by an instinct for equality and justice whose legacy as the Te Whaea o te Motu (Mother of the Nation) was an inspiration to an entire country.

A retired farmer and widower in his seventies named Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant b...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between...

A drama film based on the life of Mario Mieli, a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

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

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

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
In 1977, Judy Heumann leads over a hundred disabled people to take over the San Francisco Federal Bu...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...
Doom Island is a personal perspective on Martin's life and autism and schizophrenia from the inside,...