In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor.

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Cha...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as...

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

Jeta is a student who is a member of the illegals and tries to create a group of antifascist girls i...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...