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- A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
- A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
- A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
- The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
- The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
- When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
- The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
- Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
- The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
- The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
- A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.
- Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
- A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
- A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
- Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
- First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
- At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
- A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
- The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
- A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
- Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
- The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
- The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
- After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.
- At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
- A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
- The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
- Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
- Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
- A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
- Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
- A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
- In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
- In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
- The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
- Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
- An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
- A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
- Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
- A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
- A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
- A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
- After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
- As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her passion at Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
- An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
- A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
- A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
- At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
- British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.