The Molly Maguires

In 1921, an American medical student of Irish descent finds himself involved in the Irish War of Independence. In addition, his professor is a leader in the IRA.

The story of Miss Jane Pittman, a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

An Irish soldier deserts the British Army to return home during the Great Famine. Despite his war experiences, nothing prepares him for the devastating impact of starvation on his family and people.

An 1840s Swedish farming family struggle with their unyielding land and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.

The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community in 1920 West Virginia, brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anes

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depressio

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other po

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.