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 After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy.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

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

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 ...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
During the Revolutionary War, Emily, her daughter Sarah and her two young grandchildren have to look...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

The Birth of Yue Fei is a Hong Kong Drama starring Sammo Hung in a child role

The Monkey Soldiers Come to the Rescue is a Hong Kong Drama starring Sammo Hung in a child role

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

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...