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 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, sh...
The plot takes place in the revolutionary year of 1848. It takes us to Príbelice, where Janko Kráľ r...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

In 1968 Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys met a dynamic and passionate singer/songwriter and introduce...

To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capot...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

In a time of political and social unrest in 19th century Korea, uncouth, self-taught painter Jang Se...

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the politi...

Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small Afri...

A story of passion, rivalry, love, and friendship. Jan Banas, acclaimed Silesian football player of ...

The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World ...
Getting out of prison doesn't mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution...

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to...

A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to prote...