A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He pl...

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family ...

A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

In 1897, an army of 21 Sikhs battles 10,000 Afghans to prevent the Saragarhi Fort from being taken d...

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t...

A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to...

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Q...

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get...

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to...

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...

Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dres...

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bul...

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husba...

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing f...

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escape...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone o...

1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists ...

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-succ...