Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the a...
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the Fren...
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds b...
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicat...
The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbi...
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophi...
The Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace ship that was bombed by operatives of the French government, in...
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of gi...
1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent ...
In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS....
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marri...
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of seve...
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...