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.

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

A restaurant in Moscow is forced to shut shop after they end up ruining a crucial political dinner i...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor beco...

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who most ably exem...

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowl...

Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents —...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.