At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked b...

The life of Lafayette and his involvement in the revolutionary war.

In 19th century France, an escaped convict seeks redemption while caring for a young woman whose mot...

Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and ...

The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French...

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins where it all ended, in New Caledonia, with images of the ruins o...

“Madame Tallien” (1916) depicts the libertine life and loves of the eponymous decadent aristocrat, a...

In the eighteenth century the mystical midnight hour disappeared and the modern night was born. We n...

In the spring of 1789, France is devastated by famine. The French people begin to rise in unrest aga...

Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring...

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military store...

Constance, an aristocrat from the Vendée, and François-Denis, a navy officer 10 years her senior, fa...

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds b...

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the as...

Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is ...

Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French ...