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 After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy.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

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

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

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

Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later o...

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

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

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 sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

Tells the story of the legendary 16th century naval captain Mohammed, a brave warrior and merchant s...

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

Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battl...

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of Ki...