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.

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

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 ...

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who most ably exem...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged hu...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his h...

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.
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 ...

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...

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