His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a ...

This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events ...

This is the story of many of us. Those who left their country, their families, their languages. For ...

The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood ...

About the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin, his connection with his native country, its peop...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydi...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interview...

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme,...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

The encounters of two people who run into each other on several occasions under circumstances rangin...

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a ge...

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of ...