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.

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night h...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa...

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h...

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for hel...

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The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story re...

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a g...

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have...

Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette ...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...