The story takes place at the time of the defeat of the Hungarian War of Independence, when Csákberény came under the terror of the imperial soldiers. Two priests from the village are arrested overnight for reading the Hungarian Declaration of Independence. Although the Austrian soldiers enjoy their power, they are unable to identify with the repression. The purpose of the trial of a military imprisonment court is to obtain a confession, to prove that a violation of sovereignty has been committed.

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family ...

A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

In 1897, an army of 21 Sikhs battles 10,000 Afghans to prevent the Saragarhi Fort from being taken d...

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the fi...

A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to...

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Q...

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get...

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to...

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...

Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dres...

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bul...

Myra Chang comes of age in a dysfunctional family business. When her abusive mother tries to claim h...

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing f...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone o...

1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists ...

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-succ...

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair...

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.