In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a...

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized...

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his...

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He...

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for...

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory...

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher...