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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

The short history of a room and the fiction born in it.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites ...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbab...

This one-off TV special follows the exploits of camp comic Graham Norton on a visit to Tokyo. Stayin...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal struct...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...