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 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

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

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

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...

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

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

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...

Lacey is an amusement park princess who befriends 8-year-old Rose, a real-life princess, and is recr...

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

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

It follows a widow with two children who befriends some interesting characters in her small seaside ...

Ainsley McGregor, a former Chicago criminologist, has moved back to her hometown of Sweet River, Tex...

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

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

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ic...