The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Switzerland in the 13th century: Shot in the middle of World War II, this classic film returns to th...
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relation...
The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business succ...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...
A young Ojibwa girl from 1770 marries a Scottish fur trader and leaves home for the shores of Georgi...
The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused...
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son ...
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicat...
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustl...
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the li...
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th...
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...
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...