
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a b...
Vincent Van Gogh's life was a masterpiece painted with the dueling colors of madness versus genius. ...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th centu...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...