Year 1763, the Seven Years' War is about to end. August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, has died, leaving empty the royal treasury and an extraordinary collection of paintings, sculptures, jewelry and goldsmith masterpieces, which he considered a symbol of his greatness, and that of Dresden, one of the European capitals of Baroque art.

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and ar...

In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becom...

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, ...

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants not...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...

A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever...

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

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

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of Ki...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...