The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

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

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

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...

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary pla...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

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

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talen...

Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 m...

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...

A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging...

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

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...

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...