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.
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses ...
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law,...
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their moth...
The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, ...
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in...
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is at...
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, w...
In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woma...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...
Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home ...
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to cre...