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 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 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...

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

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business a...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

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 late 18th century Venice, in a convent school for girls, Teresa, a student with prophetic gifts, ...

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided ...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...

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...

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...

Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary ma...