Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.

The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because ...

A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, w...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

Ancient Korea, 1728. Swordsman Kim Ho, guard of King Yeong-jo of Joseon, is demoted and sent to work...

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his ...

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, s...

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a...

From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-...

Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to b...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the sto...

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

In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prag...

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...
General arrives in Baden-Baden with his stepdaughter Polina and his mother, seeking social standing ...