Bernard Browne

Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.

General Jacques Dextraze of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force rescues a group of hostages from Katangan rebels.

Les années 70 sont une époque bénie pour l'Amérique toute puissante avec sa musique, ses modes et… l'affaire du Watergate. Et si l'origine de ce scandale s'appelait en fait Betsy et Arlene, deux adolescentes amoureuses du président Nixon ?…

The Hayworth family lives in a Quaker territory in up-state New York. The matriarch, Emily runs the local bank. Years before, she and her family took in troubled, young Jimmy Flood to protect him from his abusive father. Though one of Emily's grown daughters, Janet feels she did not belong in the quiet, devoutly religious community and left the Quakers, Emily believed that her family ties stayed strong. Real trouble comes to the family when Jimmy Flood returns to the house after busting out of prison with the help of Digby and Lester, and he takes Emily's family hostage in exchange for $4 million. If Emily fails to secure the money in time, her entire family will lose their lives. Determined to resolve the potentially deadly conflict in a peaceful manner, Emily calls an emergency meeting of the town friends to work out a solution and save her family.

A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing blueprints for would-be murderers. Arguing that the publisher is not protected by the First Amendment, the crusading lawyers seek monetary damages for the victims' families.

Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.

The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war.

A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.

Une nuit, un homme nu erre dans les rues de New-York. L'inconnu est amené aux urgences de l’hôpital Gramercy où le brillant docteur Guy Luthan, qui est alors en service, tente de le soigner rapidement de violentes crises de spasmes. Après une accalmie, le malheureux attrape le col de la blouse de Luthan et le supplie de le sauver puis s’effondre, mort. Luthan est bouleversé par la tournure des événements. Ne comprenant pas les symptômes, l’existence d’un bracelet mystérieux au poignet de l’individu et son comportement étrange l’interpellent. Ce qui lui semblait être un souci d’ordre professionnel devient finalement une obsession. Aidé de l’infirmière Jodie Trammel, il mène l’enquête dans les couloirs sombres de la recherche médicale, parfois jusqu’au péril de sa vie...

Quittant les ghettos mal fâmés de Chicago pour le Mississippi de son frère, Loretta renoue avec ses racines et prend conscience du traumatisme causé par l'esclavage.

Une jeune femme paralysée rejoint sur la Cote d'Azur son père qu'elle n'a pas vu depuis dix ans. Hébergée par Jane sa belle-sœur, Penny croit voir à plusieurs reprises le cadavre de son père.

Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win.

Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.