It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...

The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the p...

A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relation...

1547. Fernando de Gama, a young "Soldier of Fortune" from Portugal, set sail for the Orient in an ef...
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is...

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...

The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous ...

The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive for...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes a...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads...

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br...

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-a...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

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