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

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...

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

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

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

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

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

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

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ic...

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

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

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...

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