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.

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to ...

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Inde...
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined durin...

Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maxim...

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...

Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached b...

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...

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressiv...

A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The...

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him...

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

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

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a p...

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement ...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich H...