An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and beco...

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...