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.

At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home af...

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he ca...

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with...

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action...

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themse...

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death...

A dramatisation of two generations of the Strauss family of Vienna, whose dance music and operettas ...

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously...

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which...

Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies...

In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It i...

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

Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nem...

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

For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their heart...