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.

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the late 18th century, over 50,000 Europeans were persecuted,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in th...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...