Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory explores how the British misjudged their opponent an...

Follow Napoleon Bonaparte, everyone’s favorite vertically challenged dictator, as he learns to inter...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Na...

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the ...

The film displays Madame Récamier 's conflict with Napoleon. Twice she was pressed to become one of ...

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreat...

In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, h...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

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...