When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Min...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary...

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

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another cu...

Follows the life of Catholic Priest John Bosco (1815–1888).
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-c...

The life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history...

An enterprising woman reporter enlists the help of a hardened African explorer to try to locate a mi...

In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou...

Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Th...

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to...

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end...

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly upr...