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.
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to b...
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, ...
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impair...
1793, French Revolution. For three years now, Charette, a young man retired from the Royal Navy, has...
The story of the "Hutsul Robin Hood" Oleksa Dovbush, an 18th century Carpathian Mountains outlaw who...
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy w...
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a h...
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry ...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Late 18th-century Joseon dynasty. The King is beleaguered and surrounded by traitors of the ruling e...
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in th...
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor...
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a ge...