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 week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

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...

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a ...

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

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...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and decep...

The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marri...

In the 19th century, a young widow named Eva manages a remote winter fishing outpost in an Arctic ba...

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.

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...