The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mass media prior to the era of mass media, a virtual reality on canvas.
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of...
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
In this journey through the seasons, you’ll experience a year in the life of hundreds of plant-eatin...
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being ...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated ...
At the end of the 18th century in Bulgaria under Ottoman slavery, a young woman leaves home and fami...
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even p...
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...
A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbe...
The Prophet Joseph Smith is dead, killed by a mob. Enemies of the LDS Church think the church will d...
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of t...