What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious messianic zeal and the friction between social classes proved disastrous and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple.
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody...
Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk,...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.
Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love ar...
During the Civil War, Jeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South....
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...
222 A.D. During yet another decadent party, Emperor Heliogabalus recalls his former lover Zotikos fr...
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles...
Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendar...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...