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 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...
The Battle of Bhima Koregaon was fought on 1 January 1818 between the British East India Company and...
In 1863, when a legless, shipwrecked man washes up on the Acadian coast, he's taken to the home of J...
Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussia...
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psycho...
Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studyin...
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...
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to M...
Stefan Luchian is a passionate painter who rebels against conservative art groups, determined to cr...
Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves...
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...
Historical satire from the first half of the 19th century, which captures the decay and decline of t...
Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Ci...
When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put i...