Catherine The Great
Tolstoy’s tragic heroine defies 19th-century Russian mores, trading respectability for a doomed affair.
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.
In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.
An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.
Chronicling the life of Queen Elizabeth II with a focus on her enduring reign, public image, private life and the defining events since her coronation.
In 19th century Russia, peasant Polikei is sent by the wealthy landlady to town. Things start to get complicated and even tragic, when he loses the lady's money he was sent for.
A dramatized account of the 1905 mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin, described through groundbreaking montage techniques.
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.
A 1938 Soviet historical epic directed by Sergei Eisenstein about Prince Alexander Nevsky leading Russian forces against the invading Teutonic Knights.
The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.
Posing as a wealthy widow, a beautiful jewel thief infiltrates British high society. But complications arise when she begins to fall in love with the womanizing nephew of her intended target.
A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
Coming from a tenacious Greek-Macedonian family, she fought and killed for her place on the throne; a noble attempt to save a failing Egypt. Her story has been warped so much, from biased opinions to …
When circus romance becomes a three-ring disaster Nikita's mastery over lions proves useless when his adopted daughter's heart escapes his cage. As Lida blossoms under the circus lights, her affection…
A meek governess and her mysterious employer strike up a romantic relationship.
Clara Kimball Young portrays two roles. As Janet, a convent novitiate, she agrees to exchange places with her sister, Lucy, a cabaret dancer, who believes she has killed a man.
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marri…
Somewhat fictionalized dramatic account of Late Roman Emperor Constantine, his rise to power, and his establishment of religious tolerance among Roman subjects.
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
An American woman is terrorized by the ravages of war and a lecherous Prussian lieutenant when she becomes a Red Cross nurse overseas during the Great War.
The charismatic swordsman-poet and provocateur in 1640s Paris helps a young guardsman woo the woman he loves, complicated by the politics of the nobility and the war with Spain.