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 After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy.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.
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In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged l...
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 ...
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During the Revolutionary War, Emily, her daughter Sarah and her two young grandchildren have to look...
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The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
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Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.
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This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be Ki...
Don Carlos, heir to the Spanish throne, and Princess Elisabeth of Valois are deeply in love but King...