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

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

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

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

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

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

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...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

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

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

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...

In 1904, the Kazakh wrestler Hajja Mukan, inspired by the successes of the Russian hero Ivan Poddubn...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

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

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

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