Les Perses (The Persians) is a French TV movie adaptation of Aeschylus' oldest known tragedy, Πέρσαι (Persai). It was originally broadcasted in October 31, 1961. The play deals with the aftermath of the Persian defeat in the battle of Salamis (480 BC), which makes it the only Greek tragedy that deals with a real historical event.
After the Battle of Lipany, the remnants of the Hussite troops concentrated under the leadership of ...
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the ...
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide th...
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
TV adaptation of Lesya Ukrainka's drama, which interprets the plot of Don Juan from a feminist point...
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...
Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter, Luisa, and Ben’s son, Matt, by pret...
A man honeymooning with his new wife in the Rockies reports her disappearance to the police. A few d...
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of ...
A Wild West cow town is starving for entertainment and it falls upon Calamity Jane, a rowdy, gun-tot...
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking...
Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord ...
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and th...
The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has e...
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of gree...
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they...
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,...