The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law,...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

After disappearing from a small Polish town, a mother discovers her 4-year old daughter, Ola, has be...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th centu...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his di...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic li...

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....