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.

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

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

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwea...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

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

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...

An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustl...

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

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

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

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

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

Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French ...

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

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

In 500 B.C., during Chinas famed 'Spring and Autumn Period', Kong Ze (Confucius), a commoner reverre...