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.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

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

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants not...

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

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

In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becom...

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

Keith Garner visits historical locations, elegant chapels and bustling city centres as he discovers ...

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

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

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

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