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.

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois a...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of emp...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and...

The film traces the life of Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe, a Zeybek (active as an outlaw in the region enclos...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Chicherin - Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat, first People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of t...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...

The era of palace coups in Russia ended with the coronation of a prominent historical figure: Cather...

Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...