After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

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 ...

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...

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...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...

A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wi...

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

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

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the coupl...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

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

The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massa...

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

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...