During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous ...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Acade...

16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblowe...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel...

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the secon...

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the...

Historical drama depicting the events leading up to the 1917 October Revolution produced to celebrat...

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...