Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

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

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...

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

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...

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

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York t...

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly dis...

Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhans...

222 A.D. During yet another decadent party, Emperor Heliogabalus recalls his former lover Zotikos fr...

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying...

Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her peo...

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.