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.

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...
After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man....

A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his di...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

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

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

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...

Cristina and Tudor have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in ...

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a compan...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

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...

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a...
Vincent Van Gogh's life was a masterpiece painted with the dueling colors of madness versus genius. ...

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

At the age of 18, Alexis discovers she was abducted as a baby and the mother she thought was hers is...