Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Den stolte och tyranniske earlen av Dorincourt kan inte smälta att hans son gift sig med en amerikanska och flyttat till USA. När sonen dör blir plötsligt earlens nioåriga barnbarn Cedric arvtagare till familjens förmögenhet, så earlen kallar hem pojken till England. Cedrics mamma följer med på resan, men earlen hyser fortfarande agg mot henne och hon tillåts inte bo på familjens slott. Det blir till sist den godhjärtade Cedric som får sin kärve farfar att vekna och ändra sinnelag.
Sheriffen Rooster J. Cogburn hjälper predikantens dotter Eula Goodnight att söka efter faderns mördare, samtidigt som han jagar ett gäng som stulit en vagn med sprängämnen.
Mary and Tom are parentless Irish siblings who arrive in New York City via ocean liner in 1886 and quickly find themselves on a wild, cross-country journey aboard a transcontinental "Orphan Train" where they meet an extraordinary new friend who will change their lives forever.
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
Världens kanske mest kända byggnad började byggas 1887 trots massivt motstånd. Det över 300 meter höga och drygt 10 000 ton tunga tornets historia är en kamp mellan järn och sten, ingenjörskonst och arkitektur.
In 1881 Algeria, an American soldier and a French aristocrat are about to have a duel over a woman when a comet hurtling past the Earth draws them into its gravitational pull. The men find themselves transported to the moon, where they discover a prehistoric civilization inhabited by reptiles and humans.
A biopic centred on the military career of the founder and the first president of Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
An English woman is unwittingly sold into prostitution and joins a brothel run by a mysterious baron.
Set during the first Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881 details the events leading up to this final battle ending in one of the most humiliating defeats for Britain in history.
In 1880, an inexperienced prosecutor must indict a group of people accused of witchcraft and murder on the island of Chiloé. Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, to save her grandfather from the condemnation of the state, must be initiated into witchcraft.
Chinese pheasants set loose in Oregon in 1881 find it difficult to survive in their new home, where there are different kinds of predators, but eventually they multiply and create a breed of ring-necked pheasants that can be found throughout the country.