diplomats

CIA agent Tony Mendez tries to help six Americans escape Tehran during the Iran Hostage Crisis by disguising himself and them as a film crew and hiding in plain sight of the Iranians who have taken over the U.S. embassy.

Eileen Riley had an enviably glamorous life as a globe-trotting career diplomat. Her job took her from the corridors of power at the White Hourse to postings in Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, and finally, London. And then she decided to pack it all in and become a professional dog-sitter.

Chronicles the life of Joseph Kennedy, discussing how his ruthless quest for money, power, and social status began in his early childhood and continued through the final days of his life, and how he influenced some of the twentieth-century's most powerful political figures.

Chronicles Operation Solomon, in which fourteen thousand Ethiopian Jews--the Falashas--were airlifted in May 1991 to Jerusalem by the Israeli air force to save them from their country's civil war.

A biography of Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, who became the representative voice of millions of people promoting social reform, using his poems to raise the world's political consciousness.

A biography of Chiune Sugihara, who with his family's encouragement saved thousands of Jews in Lithuania during World War II.

Tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania in 1940 who risked the safety of his own family members and put his job on the line by issuing visas to as many as 10,000 Jews who were facing death at the hands of the Nazis.

Everyone wants to blame her lover, a young African lesbian who happens to be an illegal immigrant in Italy, for the murder of an elderly German woman in the small rural town of Paradiso, but Inspector Alessandro Cenni insists on a full investigation.