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 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...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

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

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...

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

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.

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl...

A woman looking for her kidnapped son finds one of the men who took him.

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her ...

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

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...

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