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.

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

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

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

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

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

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

In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, h...

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th...

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

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

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

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

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

In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor beco...

Late 18th-century Joseon dynasty. The King is beleaguered and surrounded by traitors of the ruling e...

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...