| 18th Century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe from Portuguese slavers |
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| Biography of country singer Loretta Lynn |
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| The story of a mother and daughter who are very different and their relationship |
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| Between two Thanksgivings, a woman's husband falls in love with her sister, and her ex-husband rekindles a relationship with another sister |
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| An emotionally detached writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles |
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| Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom the friendship of an Indian doctor, Englishwoman engaged to a city magistrate and an English educator |
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| A down-on-his-like alcoholic lawyer pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but later realizes he is doing the right thing |
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| An English teacher at a prep school inspires his students to change their lives of conformity through literature |
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| Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France play in high-stakes games of passion and betrayal |
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| A biography of the Indian lawyer who led his country in non-violent resistance against British rule |
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| A young Canadian woman's dream of a better life in the gambling business is interrupted when her drug dealing ex-husband returns |
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| A young English woman travels to early 1900s Italy and falls in love |
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| An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises him self as a woman to get a role in a soap opera |
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| A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily deformed man living as a side-show freak |
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| The true story of American journalist Charles Horman who disappeared in the aftermath of the U.S. backed Chilean coup of 1973 |
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| The Story of Mozart told from the point of view by Antonio Sallieri |
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| A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when his former lover becomes obsessed with and begins stalking him |
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| A boxer's violence and temper give him success in the ring but destroys his life outside it |
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| A mob hit man and hit woman fall in love, even though they've been assigned to kill each other |
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| An alcoholic country singer gets a new wife, tries to reach out to his long lost daughter and tries to put his troubled life behind him |
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| A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with a deaf woman who works there |
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| The story of Christy Brown, who learned to write and paint despite having cerebral palsy |
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| In colonial Kenya a Dutch baroness has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a big game hunter |
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| An aging couple who return to the same cottage every summer are visited by their daughter, her fiancee and his young son |
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| When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's position |
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| A Texas widow tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man |
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| A group of baby boomer college friends reunite after the death of a friend |
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| The story of Ron Kovic, a Vietnam veteran who becomes and anti-war and pro-human rights activist |
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| A corn farmer hears voices that he believes are telling him to build baseball diamonds in his fields, and as he does the Chicago Black Sox begin to appear |
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| A widowed Brooklyn book keeper is torn between her fiancee and his brother |
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| A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign |
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| Two FBI agents investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists |
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| A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man |
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| A black officer is sent to investigate the murder of a black soldier in Louisiana near the end of World War II |
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| The story of Puyi, Emperor of China |
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| A radical American journalist becomes involved in the Russian Revolution and hopes to bring their same idealism to the United States |
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| A leftist revolutionary and a homosexual pedophile share a prison cell |
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| An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur have a relationship that grows over the years |
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| A nine year old boy grows up in London during the blitz of World War II |
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| The accidental death of a younger son in an affluent family causes strains in the relationships of the other family members |
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| A strong willed peasant girl earns the affection of two men and in the end falls tragically into the arms of one |
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| A selfish yuppie's father leaves his inheritance to his savant brother; they travel cross country |
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| The story of two rival reporters and a television news producer who has daily emotional breakdowns |
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| Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis |
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| The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho approach to the space program |
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| The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Scottish Christian, the other a determined English Jew, who both compete in the 1924 Olympics |
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| A lonely boy befriends an alien stranded on Earth |
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| An aging actor's assistant struggles to keep his employer's life together |
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| A young African-American woman named Celie must live down the problems facing African-Americans in the early 1900s |
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| A detective must protect a young Amish boy who becomes the target of a ruthless killer after witnessing a murder |
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