Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath i...

The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites ...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing o...

In 1899, Lord Kang must decide which of his three sons will take over his family's Chinese banking e...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, ...