The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to hav...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614),...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around wome...

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first succe...

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th...

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedde...

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...