Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for thei...

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t...

The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...
Two siblings lose their parents amidst turmoil in revolutionary France and are adopted by a peasant ...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead h...

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic...

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son ...

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...

Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental r...

Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later o...

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific execu...

In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives...

In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish ...

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic...