Country: United States
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
John H. Groberg a middle class kid from Idaho Falls crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950s. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with the girl back home and her letters buoy up...
Country: Spain, Brazil
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega the Spanish playwright who dominated Spains early Golden Age of...
Country: France
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Diana the Peoples Princess has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen and her family decide that for the best they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the...
Country: France
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
During the middle of the 16th century Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin but he seems to know all about his friends his family and his wife even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
On a fall night in 2003 Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in...
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Seduced by Jung killed by hate redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor Carl Gustav Jung takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung Freud...
Country: United States
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviations infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in...
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