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.

15-year-old Puerto Rican Lisa Velez overcomes sexism, racism, and breast cancer to become Latin pop ...

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

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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...

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...

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

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not ...
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battl...

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been appr...

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husba...

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his ...

Before her death, Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood, up through her final year...

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon mission...

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.