At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak.
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchuku...
Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...
Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly fi...
Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If t...
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that...
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young ...
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a ...
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...
In the spring of 1905, the water conduit project in the Canadian city of Canitoga is set to be compl...
In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent ...
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up an...
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....
In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...