A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin’s influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a…

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled “crates” and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand…

In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being…

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son…

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in ’30s New York City.

In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

A sailor falls in love with the admiral’s daughter but finds they can’t marry because of his lowly rank.

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.