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The Brutalist
When visionary architect László Toth (Brody) and his wife Erzsébet (Jones) flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy in America, a mysterious and wealthy client (Pearce) ends up changing their lives forever.
The Kidnapping of Edgar...
In 1858, an Italian Jew beomes the center of an international controversy when he is removed from his parents at the age of seven by authorities of the Papal States and is raised as a Catholic. He goes on to become a priest in the Augustinian order.
The Shadows
With crime rampant in 1940s, Boston mayor gave the nod to the creation of a task force known as "The Shadows," the first police force to work with criminal informants, wear plain clothes and go undercover.
The Secret Life of Dr. ...
A woman spends her entire life as a man so she can study and practice medicine. She becomes a prominent surgeon who spends her groundbreaking career championing the rights of the lower classes and pushing for medical reforms and better sanitary conditions. Her true gender is not discovered until her death in 1865.
The Bell Jar
Set in the 1950s, a young book editor grows troubled by the social trappings of her time and slowly descends into mental illness.
The Hunger
Described as a historical-based story about the Donner Party, one of the more spectacular and bizarre tragedies in American history.
Truevine
Based on the true story of two African-American brothers kidnapped by a white man and displayed as circus freaks, while their mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.
The Bully Pulpit
Longtime friends and political collaborators Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft become bitter opponents, culminating in the 1912 Presidential election in which both are defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson with Taft running as the Republican incumbent and Roosevelt campaigning as head of the Bull Moose party.
The Invention of Wings
Set in the 19th, Sarah Grimke is gifted with a 10-year-old slave girl, Hetty, for her 11th birthday. Sarah attempts to reject the gift, she ultimately cannot nor can she free Hetty or even protect her. Sarah and Hetty's lives remain intertwined as they grow up into women.
The Architect
Set in 1840s Europe, an art thief is on the run from an investigator determined to bring him to justice.
The Armies of the Night
100,000 people march from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to the gates of the Pentagon in Virginia to protest the Vietnam War.
The Kitchen Boy
Set in 1918 during the final weeks in the lives of Russia's last tsar and tsarina, Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov, and their children, are imprisoned in Siberia, in a building known as the House of Special Purpose. There, the family is confined with a small staff of attendants, including Leonka, the kitchen boy.
The Man Who Laughs
Follows a young man (Marc-Andre Grondin) with a face mutilated to appear that he is constantly laughing. The man, who works in a travelling caravan and is named Gwynplain, is revealed to be a son of a baron who was kidnapped at the age of two, sold and disfigured, and is now heir to a vast fortune.
The Orphan Train
Set immediately after the Civil War, The Orphan Train depicts people from vastly different backgrounds being forced to work together when their children are mistakenly sent away on a real train that placed orphaned or unwanted children with families in the Midwest. As the parents travel seek their missing children, they encounter many setbacks and suffer many losses, but goodness, love, and faith ultimately prevail.
The Strange Career of W...
William Ellis is born on the U.S.-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery and inhabits a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passes as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border.
The Sun Always Sets in ...
A drifter finds redemption with a hardscrabble frontier woman and her young daughter, only to see his dream of happiness jeopardized when brute mercenaries show up at his door.
Thomas Edison Project
Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the motion picture camera as well the long-lasting light bulb and the phonograph. Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," the prolific inventor eventually holds more than 1,000 U.S. patents and introduces electricity to millions of Americans.
The Axmann Conspiracy
In the wake of World War II, a young U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps officer, Jack Hunter, uncovers a dangerous Nazi conspiracy for a Fourth Reich. Artur Axmann is a Hitler confidante and the Nazi national leader of Hitler Youth. After conscripting kids to fight in the waning days of WWII, he is among those in the bunker when Hitler kills himself. After nearly being killed along with two others who escape the bunker, Axmann hunkers down with his plot. Hunter tracks down the men behind the conspiracy and alters the course of history forever. Axmann is eventually arrested when an Army counterintelligence operation sniffs out his plot to rekindle the Reich.
The Captain
Centers on the country's first black police captain in New Orleans in the early 1870s.
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