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.

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

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths ...

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

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

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the ...

Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Cast...

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

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

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

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

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

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...

Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nem...
After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man....

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Val...

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...

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden ...

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...