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.

As World War Two draws to a close, a sailor aboard ship in the Indian Ocean must do his duty. Watch ...

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

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the secon...

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is...

In 17th century Holland, a faction of royalists is scheming to restore the monarchy and jail the De ...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

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

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along...

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...

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

Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, t...

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

Explores the story of three children who claimed to have witnessed visitations of the Virgin Mary in...

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...