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.

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue...

Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where h...

With a divine answer to a humble prayer at age 14, Joseph Smith began to fulfill his inspired missio...

A look a the life of 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he wi...

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted ...
Vincent Van Gogh's life was a masterpiece painted with the dueling colors of madness versus genius. ...

A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

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

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to the...

Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Th...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of...

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After ...

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls...

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly upr...

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...

Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhe...