His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

This remarkable series of 10 short silent dramas by John M. Stahl, produced by Benjamin Chapin as a ...

Alice, a perfect wife and mother, lives happily with her husband and child until the day she discove...

The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political p...

As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved ...

A personal portrait of the victor of Waterloo, drawing on his own vast correspondence and the letter...

Alone is about the 91-year-old actress and writer Luba Skořepová, who used to be a member of Czech N...

The heartwarming story of a fakir named Lalon Kar that traces his journey from being a family man to...

August 1922. An American journalist, Jerry Thompson, travels to the Soviet Union and arrives in Azer...

Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Bo...

In 1975, a woman reached the summit of Mount Everest: Junko, the first woman in history to reach the...

Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and wor...

Louise, a young deaf and dumb comedian, has just been named best actress of the year. She is married...

Historian David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation and how it transformed the fac...

Biopic of Marathi comedian, India's first stand-up comedian P. L. Deshpande.