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.

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

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

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...

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

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Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of...

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...

Buck is a half German Shepard half Saint Bernard whose life is peaceful and happy living with the Mi...

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

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

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A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...

A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of cu...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...