Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the s...

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 classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.

As Hannah and Mike experience engaged life while balancing their busy careers, a murder at a 24-hour...

An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present da...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

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

Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love...

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...

Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mys...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

A woman who has confronted the sour side of success finds love and discovers herself in this made-fo...

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cel...