Between the end of the Middle Ages and the late 18th century, over 50,000 Europeans were persecuted, tortured and executed on charges of witchcraft. The pogrom was triggered by the book 'Malleus Maleficarum', published in 1486. Its detailed instructions for persecuting and annihilating alleged witches triggered a mass hysteria.

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of emp...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegu...

In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor beco...

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th...

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when t...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants not...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a mai...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...