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 story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

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

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

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

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

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along...
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is...

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

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...

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...

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

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

1547. Fernando de Gama, a young "Soldier of Fortune" from Portugal, set sail for the Orient in an ef...

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

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

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