The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

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

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

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

A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Ce...

During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team,...

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

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

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...

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing...

In a society forbidding emotion, a pianist attempts to mourn her late daughter against the wishes of...

In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prag...

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son ...

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicat...

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of Ki...

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud ...

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

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