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 After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy.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 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...

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...

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 ...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

The first Chinese film ever made, a sung representation of Battle of Mount Dingjun.

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

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she ...

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he gr...

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in t...

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...

Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Na...

Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn...

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new...

Who is Jocky Wilson? 20 years ago every child in Kirkcaldy, on the east coast of Scotland, could ans...