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 story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as ...

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...

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 early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to...

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing...

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

Best friends Liz and Megan are searching for love, but each takes a very different path to find it.

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

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...

The gullible buyer Žemla Martin (Francis Smolik) finally opened his dream shop. After a while, you g...

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic li...

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

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...