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.

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...

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

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

For over 30 years a man termed as a mad man, comes to light as his passionate work of collecting art...

Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of th...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

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

The civil war in China has ruined many lives including General Pang's. A wounded General Pang is sav...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...

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

This film records the Japanese military's efforts to capture the Burma Road,one of the major supply ...