This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Jean-Paul Marat--who has the notorious distinction of having influenced the Reign of Terror.

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industri...

Filmed in IMAX, a young girl questions her grandfather about the alleged curse of King Tutankhamen. ...

An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to ...

Henri Le Rocque's arrival in an island village causes much anger when he insists upon advanced renta...

An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wi...

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by ...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of seve...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor...

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering fro...