When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Ma...
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not ...

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...

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 ...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild...

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...

A prodigious Indian mathematician has to overcome poverty and prejudices and make a mark with the he...

Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna....

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...

Painter, poet and playwright, teacher and freethinker, lover and traveler, Austrian artist Oskar Kok...