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.

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

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when t...

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the La...

The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company an...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...

Captain Jack Sparrow, that wily charmer of a pirate, is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker when his pirat...

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

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

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

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 ...

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

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

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

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

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...

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