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.

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

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-succ...

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair...

Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dres...

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bul...

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extra...

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affa...

A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.

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...

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...

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