In 1866 the Prussians withdraw from the German alliance and declare war on Austria. A sergeant of this army forces a Czech young man named Ludvík Machl to execute himself by hanging. However, the unfortunate man's road to death had already begun earlier. Ludvík was one of the patriotic conspirators who, among other things, had seized money from the Austrian printing press. However, he was tracked down in his lodgings by the police, who discovered some of the looted money and a pistol. Unlike the three other conspirators, however, Commissioner Melc offers him his freedom - if Ludwig becomes an agent of the Austrian police. Frightened, Machl signs under duress...
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a fo...
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist'...
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days ...
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular...
As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the sea...
Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues...
Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to En...
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col....
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured t...
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accu...
Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerilla...
Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who w...
Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe ...
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abdu...
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Li...
In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains...
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th centu...
Agnes MacDonnell, a strong and self-confident Englishwoman, owns a large estate on an island off the...