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.

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

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

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

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

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

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

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their c...

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

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented...

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, ...

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

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He dec...

Marta is a young, energetic girl who wants to become a tractor driver. Her husband, Adem, initially ...

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

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a M...

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and ...

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands ...

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

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