Stéphane Bern tells the story of King Louis XVI, deposed by the revolution and guillotined on January 21st, 1793. He was a cultured man, passionate about the technical advances of his time, but powerless against the huge deficit in the country. He actively supported the birth of the USA. Louis XVI was the last king to live in the palace of Versailles, where he organized the first flight of a balloon, launched the legendary expedition of Jean-Francois de La Perouse and offered his wife Marie Antoinette, the beautiful setting of the Petit Trianon, as million visitors around the world continue to admire.

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, ...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son ...

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicat...

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...

In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prag...

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

The Marquis d’Urfé finds refuge in the home of a strange family after becoming lost in a hostile for...

1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs t...

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version f...