In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around wome...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth ...

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. Howeve...

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical isla...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

Follows the Bulgarian people's struggle for national independence in the period from 1875 to the Lib...

Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree ...

Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a ...

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...