May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family, he has been close to death on many occasions since, as a young captain in the revolutionary army, he seized Toulon from the royalists in 1793.
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
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Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...
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A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
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A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of t...
A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reig...
She was a prolific self-portraitist, using the canvas as a mirror through all stages of her turbulen...
Biographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous yout...