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.

Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collect...

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death...
In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams ...

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement ...

The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a ...

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...

The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted ...

Cristina and Tudor have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in ...

Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear a...

Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king bani...

To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the Californi...

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irri...

The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pira...

In 1868 during the late Qing Dynasty, rampant corruption on the Imperial Court inflicts much sufferi...

Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on ...

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

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – ...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...