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.

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

Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pai...

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family...

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in...

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia d...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

In an idyllic Italian village, a young American girl on the threshold of adolescence is swept into a...

A young couple's world is shattered when their child goes missing in broad daylight. Shortly after, ...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from ...

A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revita...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural...

In 1870 Friendship, Wisconsin, a small town of Scandinavian settlers still suffering the repercussio...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of he...