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.

An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...

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...

In a Belgian village during the start of World War I, the Lambert family finds themselves thrust int...

Hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, this one-off special tells the powerful and moving ...

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

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

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.

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against ...

On September 11, 2001, the unimaginable transpired when devastating attacks on the World Trade Cente...

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece en...

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...

Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It ...

The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, ...

This was a very human account of the lives and deaths of Marie Antoinette and Louis the XVI focusing...

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be...