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 1946, the controversial French writer Boris Vian writes his novel I Spit on Your Graves under the...

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

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

A film biography of Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

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...

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...
Dramatization of the life of legendary transgender cabaret and drag performer Marie-Pierre Pruvot, a...

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CI...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...