An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.
A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.
The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him ...
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ...
After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw.