A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

Misunderstood by the French, Emmanuel Macron’s dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, 2024,...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive h...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, ...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this cele...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

In 1970, during the annual Dutch national commemoration of those fallen in World War II, two men try...