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...
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, ...
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...
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fet...
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...
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, ...
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version f...
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. ...
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard,...
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 ...
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwaveri...
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...
In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to ...