Governor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion. The masses chose Barrabas, and he is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

A young transgender man named Brandon navigates love, life, and trying to pass as a boy in rural Nebraska.

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

In Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israeli drug cartel.

A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.

A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.

Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

A story of how a Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the final months of World War II.

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations.

Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography.