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.

Where do we come from and where do we go ? The eternal question of humanity which religions have tri...

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

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.

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. ...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her ...

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accoun...

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are...

When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with ...

A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revita...

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...

In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of hap...