In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young...

When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disg...

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. ...

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...

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

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fightin...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daug...

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Se...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide ...

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand wor...

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a mov...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

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

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.