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.

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a...

In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It i...

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, se...

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...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The fil...

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supre...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nob...

A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
The television production is an episode from the life of Andrej Sládkovič. Braxatoris, known as Slád...

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...

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all...

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for ...