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 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

The film displays Madame Récamier 's conflict with Napoleon. Twice she was pressed to become one of ...

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

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

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first succe...

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

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

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a mov...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

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

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

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

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the ...

The movie tells the story of Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce, and Zhan Zhao. When the truth about the mysterio...

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