THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
Set during the Philippine-American war, a short-tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army: his own treacherous countrymen.
A gang of con-men rob prominent rich businessmen and politicians by posing as C.B.I and income tax officers.
Based on an incredible true story of the Battle of Saragarhi in which an army of 21 Sikhs fought against 10,000 Afghans in 1897.
GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a high-jacked Air France plane to save its passengers.
On June 25, 1983, the Lord's Cricket Ground witnessed 14 men beat the two times World Champions West Indies, putting India back onto the cricket world stage.
An investigation into the life, work, and enduring influence of the writer George Orwell, connecting his ideas to the contemporary world.
After the death of his father, warrior-king Sambhaji Maharaj battles Mughal forces led by Aurangzeb to keep the Maratha Empire alive.
It tells the story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
Two female friends become sexual rivals at maturity.
The story of Nick Leeson, an ambitious investment broker who singlehandedly bankrupted one of the oldest and most important banks in Britain.
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the UK.
The toughest times people had to face just to reach their homes.
Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the nineteenth century. The...