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.
In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...
Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude F...
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...
The story of the "Hutsul Robin Hood" Oleksa Dovbush, an 18th century Carpathian Mountains outlaw who...
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, ...
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....
La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays is a period piece set in the winter of 1797-98, during the six days lead...
Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Ci...
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
On a small green island out in the sea, they live in harmony - until a stranger comes. Like a hurric...
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants not...
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one wh...