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

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes ...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness...

The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

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

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against t...

Follow the launch of Lamborghini’s career as a manufacturer of tractors, a creator of military vehic...

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

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

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...

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

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

Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the...

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C....

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find ...

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