Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his life: To unite the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through a Canal in the Isthmus of Panama – without knowing that this will cost him his reputation, thousands of innocent lives and the biggest financial scandal of all time, up to that point: the famous “Scandal of Panama”. Today, the French capital is known as “Paname”.
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...
In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map th...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
At the end of the 18th century in Bulgaria under Ottoman slavery, a young woman leaves home and fami...
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...
The Prophet Joseph Smith is dead, killed by a mob. Enemies of the LDS Church think the church will d...
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...
"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl,...
Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king bani...
One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...
Finding their place between the forest and the sea, the Japanese have always felt awe and gratitude ...
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of...
A look a the life of 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.