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 After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy.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 short film that tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, a...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilis...
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 during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely p...
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," be...
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in...
The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perh...
After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave ...
Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever t...
In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged l...
The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as a...
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...
A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a M...
We came to the end of the road. We told you the story of the establishment of a democracy throughout...
In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy work...