An unlikely romance develops between a Lakota warrior and a young black woman at an 1890s black college.

A successful robbery goes sour when six criminals attempt to divvy up the fruits of their labour.

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.

An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind of human computer, able to make connections between different specialisms.

A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.