While a Person is Alive

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.