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 After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy.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 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.
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...
As a nun, Katharina von Bora lives the life destined for her until she comes into contact with a com...
Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and empe...
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," be...
Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilis...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy work...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...
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...
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3...
In the 16th century, during the Kazakh Khanate, Kasym Khan was the fourth ruler, often viewed as the...
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak ...
Francesca, tormented by her past, breaks the silence to talk about surviving the horrors of the comf...