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A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music From h

Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion This colorful movie depicts DeSades life from childhood to manhood A life infamous for erotic

After an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden near a town in the Misiones province named after the 19th century politician Leandro N Alem, he persuades the producers to change the project, as a po

In 1803 France, Napoleon Bonaparte Robert Cornthwaite orders the capture of notorious highwayman Purple Mask Tony Curtis, who routinely rescues imprisoned nobles and harasses the Revolutionary officials

After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was invited to South Africa in 1893 to settle a case for a wealthy Indian settled there He expected to return in a few months but instead got involved in the freedom movement and eventually stayed for 21 y

In the sixteenth century, a noblewoman has a love affair with the French King

Young George Matcham visits his uncle Lord Nelson and the vulgar Lady Hamilton With the clear eyes of youth, he measures Nelsons stature and notes his feet of clay And yet, Nelson is a hero, a great man How can this be resolved

The exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman

Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive When the sheriff arrives, things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her life

In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeons apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians

When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England

It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence, according to promotional materials

Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid 1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day

The dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of director Wim Wenderss favorite blues artists

During the power struggle between Caesar and Crassus, a Roman centurion, who is the lost son of Spartacus, is dispatched to Crassus camp to observe his movements and keep Caesar informed

The film is based on the third battle of Panipat which took place on the 14 of January in 1761 between the Marathas and the King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Abdali

The plot follows the birth, preaching, teaching and miracles of Jesus He preached and lived a radical message of Gods Love and was able to heal people of lifelong disabilities and illnesses and was able to command natural phenomena

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruths single season home run record

In 1905, Polish horse thieves living near the Russian border find their livelihoods threatened by the new Russo Japanese conflict because the Russian army requisitions all horses and forcibly conscripts all men for the war

A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy

Playwright Oscar Wildes homosexuality is exposed when he brings a libel action against his lovers father, leading to his own prosecution

World war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces

Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express and fight Indians and California Separatists who seek to destroy it

Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada

WWII In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her

The U S Navys SEALAB, a pressurized underwater habitat complete with science labs and living quarters for divers, helps advance deep sea diving and rescue

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber

While Heinrich Bullinger and Leo Jud wait for news from Huldrych Zwingli from the bloody battle of Kappel am Albis, the young Bullinger learns from Jud how things could get this far When Zwingli begins to preach as a priest in Zurich, the plague atta

During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people

Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages

This is the story of the days directly after 911, and the presidents whereabouts

Belle Melina Mercouri is a tempestuous gypsy girl who is after Sir Paul Deverill Keith Michell Her plan is to marry him and take him for every cent he has before moving on to other lovers

The film retraces the events of a trail in the Pyrenees, which fleeing fascism that was infecting the heart of Europe Catalans and internationalist militants fleeing the Franco regime

As the slave trade is dwindling in East Africa in the late 19th century, two competing slave traders start a brutal violent conflict between each other for the monopoly on the remaining profits