A Modern Hero

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an...

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it...

Far above the ground in a circus tent, a young trapeze artist prepares himself for his first dearth-defying leap. He thinks back to his mother, who...

Two brothers - one a priest, one a career criminal - find bloody salvation in a mysterious underground carnival.

World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the...

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis...

A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.

Romantic pursuits seem to end only in tragedy at the Royal Circus where three men fall for the trapeze artist Ziska.

At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the...