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In 16th century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicar's family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape, they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen in i

Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.

The Iron Horse is a movie starring George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, and Charles Edward Bull. After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a...

The Eagle is a movie starring Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, and Louise Dresser. A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family's land, only to fall for his charming...

Bronenosets Potemkin is a movie starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, and Grigoriy Aleksandrov. In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime...

An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.

The Last Command is a movie starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, and William Powell. A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Der Kongreß tanzt is a movie starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, and Otto Wallburg. Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna...

A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

She Done Him Wrong is a movie starring Mae West, Cary Grant, and Owen Moore. In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league...

Queen Christina is a movie starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, and Ian Keith. Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between...

The Scarlet Empress is a movie starring Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, and Sam Jaffe. A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

The Count of Monte Cristo is a movie starring Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, and Louis Calhern. After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to...

British Agent is a movie starring Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, and William Gargan. It's 1917. In Russia, the Communist revolution is in full swing. Stephen 'Steve' Locke is a British agent in Russia. The main task of Steve is to...

The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Mark Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor.

The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

A Tale of Two Cities is a movie starring Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, and Edna May Oliver. A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst...

A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

The Last of the Mohicans is a movie starring Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, and Henry Wilcoxon. During the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two...

Wild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

The Edge of the World is a movie starring Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, and John Laurie. A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

Marie Antoinette is a movie starring Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, and John Barrymore. The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

In the first of a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the young vibrant princess catches the eye of her sister's fiancé, Emperor Franz Josef.

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

Mio figlio Nerone is a movie starring Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, and Gloria Swanson. Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the...

Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin is a movie starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, and Magda Schneider. The second in a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the film chronicles the married life of the young empress as...

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.

Kumonosu-jo is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, and Isuzu Yamada. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin is a movie starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, and Magda Schneider. The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria finds the young empress traveling...

Tamango is a movie starring Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, and Jean Servais. A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's...

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.

Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp. Knowing that Yamamitsu, the sadistic commandant, will murder th

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.

During the war of 1812, Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a movie starring Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, and Joseph Schildkraut. During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

Jirôchô Fuji is a movie starring Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, and Shintarô Katsu. An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made "the ultimate Jirocho movie" about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in...

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organized crime group of stranglers and thieves.

Solomon and Sheba is a movie starring Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, and George Sanders. After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and...

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Sink the Bismarck! is a movie starring Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, and Carl Möhner. The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.

The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.