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.

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her ...

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accoun...

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...

In the wake of the American Civil War, two vampires rise and fight to reclaim their land from the in...

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young...

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

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamil...

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a ...
The television production is an episode from the life of Andrej Sládkovič. Braxatoris, known as Slád...

The film charts the story of Oscar Wilde’s marriage to Lloyd, an author and activist, and the sexual...

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...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...