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.
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A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally ...
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...
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The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her inte...
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train sta...
A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s...
A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke...
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