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.

A dramatisation of two generations of the Strauss family of Vienna, whose dance music and operettas ...

A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin...

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

A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She t...

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but a...

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

Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scu...

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talen...

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with...

Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subj...

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the ...

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

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted ...

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individ...

Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached b...

Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of...

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the politi...

After disappearing from a small Polish town, a mother discovers her 4-year old daughter, Ola, has be...

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. ...