Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He pl...

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...

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to ...

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t...

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...

A big-game hunter for zoos books passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic a...

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...

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and...

Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to tr...

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

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husba...

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

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife a...

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