Història narrada en primera persona pel Slavomir Rawicz, enviat al gulag pels soviètics després de sobreviure a la invasió alemany de Polònia, qui aconsegueix fugir a peu del seu captiveri el 1940 travessant l'Himàlaia, el Tibet, el desert del Gobi i la Índia.

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

Espanya, estiu de 1936. Miguel de Unamuno decideix donar suport públicament a la sublevació militar que promet posar ordre a la convulsa situació del país. Immediatament és destituït com a rector de la Universitat de Salamanca pel govern republicà. Mentrestant el general Franco inicia una campanya amb la secreta esperança de fer-se amb el comandament únic de la guerra. Veient la deriva sanguinària del conflicte Unamuno comença a qüestionar-se la seva posició inicial.

En un futur indeterminat, els llibres es consideren altament perniciosos per al benestar de la societat i la seva lectura està prohibida. Les brigades de bombers ja no es dediquen a extingir els incendis sinó a la localització de llibres clandestins i la seva cremació. Un dels membres d'aquest cos és en Montag, que està a punt d'aconseguir un ascens després d'anys de servei. Tanmateix, en Montag comença a percebre que el món en què viu no funciona prou bé. Coneixerà la Clarisse, una veïna del barri, que farà que qüestioni la seva feina i que prengui consciència de la realitat.

Biografia del periodista John Reed, fundador del Partit Comunista Americà i l’únic americà enterrat al Kremlin.

Mentre busca una solució per al seu greu estat de salut, David, un prestigiós neurocirurgià, descobreix un sinistre secret ocult en el passat.

Roma, Itàlia. Després de cometre un crim atroç, un alt oficial de la policia exposa proves que l'incriminen directament perquè el seu compromís moral impedeix eludir la llei i l'ordre social que aquesta protegeix.

Àustria, 1937. Enviat per la mare des del seu poble natal, en Franz és un jove que arriba a Viena per guanyar-se la vida treballant a un estanc. Allà coneix un client molt especial: Sigmund Freud, prestigiós pare de la psicoanàlisi i empedreït fumador de cigars. Ingenu i arrauxat, en Franz s'enamora de l'Anezka, una atractiva ballarina, i demana consell al doctor. Entre tots dos arrela una amistat peculiar, just abans de l'annexió forçada d’Àustria com a nova província del Tercer Reich.

In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.

Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.

Kharkiv, the 1930s. The heyday of Ukrainian art. Ambitious young poet Vladimir Akimov happily settles in at the new luxury "Slovo" House built specifically for artists. He comes from the provinces and works as a proof-reader in a printing press, and has never even dreamed of living under one roof with prominent Ukrainian writers and artists. He thinks his own poetry is genius, but nobody takes his literary efforts seriously, not to mention the occasional chuckles over his epigone poems. But fate smiles at him. The head of the political intelligence agency suggests that he become the author of a play written earlier. Akimov agrees, signing a non- disclosure note. The poet has no idea what price he will pay for this success. “‘Slovo’ House” is a story about a generation of Ukrainian artists persecuted by the totalitarian system, unfolding against the backdrop of one of the largest genocides of the 20th century: the Holodomor, which caused the death of almost 7 million people.

Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.

Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship.

Budapest, Hongria, Nadal del 1957. L'Estat, insegur després del fracàs de la revolució del 1956 i sotmès cada cop més a la influència d'una renovada atmosfera estalinista, ha decretat que tots els oficials de seguretat han de passar un examen per verificar-ne la lleialtat . Però per ser realment efectiu en un món ombrívol on regnen la sospita i els secrets, els subjectes han d'ignorar que estan sent provats.

In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.

In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away from Miguel for a long time, now feels compelled to unravel the mystery of a name that, like a curse, pursues his father.