A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.

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

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...

The famous Viennese harlot ends up in inhospitable Bavaria, where she meets Emperor Napoleon in a re...

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the hist...

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who play...

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

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

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

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

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

This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely bas...

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

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...

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for indepen...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreat...

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