Sir Richard Shelton, a young British nobleman, returns from the War of the Roses to find his father dead and his accuse...

 In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding...

Mic hael Linnett Connors takes Molly Adair from Broadway understudy to 1913 Hollywood star. Although she is in love with him, she marries he...

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond ...

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous ho...

In the eighteenth century, a Spanish expedition is looking for seven cities of gold in a territory now known as California. A very difficult...

In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos, comes to Mexico City to complain tha...

Technicolor & tights. In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any ...

United States has just acquired Louisiana from France. An expedition led by Lewis and Clark is sent to survey the ter...

The setting is Persia in the fourth century B.C., as Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed King Ahasuerus. The King has bee...

During the Second Punic War between 214 and 212 B.C. occurred this history of the Roman siege in Greek city of Syracuse. Th...

In 1763, felon Abby Hale is sentenced to slavery in America. In Virginia, heroic Capt. Holden buys her, intending to free h...

Neron 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...

In 11th-century England, King Edward the Confessor wants saxon Lord Leofric to marry a despised Norman woman, and has hi...

Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emper...

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kin...

F rance, July, 1789. Whilst a party of aristocrats are enjoying themselves in the Bois de Vincennes, the French Revolution is beginnin...

Lee,  slave to sculptor Praxiteles and model for his statue of the goddess Aphrodite. One day she finds injured Macedonian soldier Laertes w...

In 1866, in the spring of Venice, an underground rebel movement against the Austrian occupation in Italy is getting stronger. The married C...

Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic ...