1865年,持续四年的美国内战进入了尾声,亚伯拉罕·林肯总统(丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day-Lewis 饰)也迎来了他的第二个任期。在生命和任期的最后四个月,林肯一直在致力于一场比内战还艰苦的战役:推动宪法第13修正案在国会的通过。该法案将从法理上永久废除奴隶制在美国的存在。然而修正案提出的时机异常糟糕:废奴思想缺少人民的响应;国会为保守势力把持;支持废奴的激进派也不满林肯的作风。当分裂出去的南部州表达了重回谈判桌和终结内战的意愿后,林肯发现他面临一个两难的痛苦决定:是获得妥协的和平...
The stakes could not be higher as one of the theater's finest stage directors teams up with one of the world's leading opera companies to tackle opera's most monumental challenge: the production of Wagner's epic Ring cycle - the four-part, 16-hour wo...
Rosalba, a young tourist guide, suffers from a strange ailment: the very least melody sets off in her gesticulation and she beings to dance, as suddenly as uncontrollably. Despite her ruses to hide her eccentricity, this uncontrollable body might wel...
Follows the globe-trotting journey of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, who, after bringing democracy to his country, takes up the fight to keep it from disappearing under the sea....