The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Count Appiani. In order to win Emilia, the prince tries to send the count on an "honorable" journey on his behalf with the help of his chamberlain Marinelli. However, after the Count refuses this offer, Marinelli decides to have the wedding carriage robbed on his own initiative in order to have Emilia abducted to the Prince's nearby pleasure palace. But he has not thought of the prince's mistress, Countess Orsina, and Emilia's shaken father Odoardo, both of whom soon arrive at the castle, one to meet the prince, the other to look after his daughter...
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USS...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady ...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force i...
The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in ...
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...
Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the...
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
Esma, Berk and Hasan are three people who try to escape the troubles of life with the help of a vide...
In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable S...
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...
Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...
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