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.

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as ...

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendet...

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to...

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is...

Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king bani...

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa...

Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow f...

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

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

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...

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

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...

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

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. ...

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 ...