Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

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

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...

A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wi...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massa...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...