History

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV’s court.

Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union’s secret service ...

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole ...

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I ...

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan ...

A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend ...

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a ...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes ...

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. ...

Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn ...

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of ...

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. ...

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own ...

In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.

An Australian biopic about the life of pioneering aviator Charles “Smithy” Kingsford-Smith. The film is unusually frank about the ...

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly ...

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Pickpocket Kitty’s life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who ...

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian ...

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual ...

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social ...

The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.