The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

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

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...

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

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

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

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...