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 After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy.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

Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a v...

A Mamluk Sultan wants to wed his niece, Princess Najma, to his heir Antar, but the princess refuses ...

The story of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid (592-642) the greatest military leader in the dawn of Islam during ...

Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry...

Benedict Arnold is not the villain of American history most people were taught to believe. New facts...

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

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

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

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

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Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

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

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...