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.

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a l...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

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

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by...

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of he...

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supre...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nob...

In an idyllic Italian village, a young American girl on the threshold of adolescence is swept into a...

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 ...

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamil...