The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people.
In WWII, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial,...More
France, 1719. Four years after Louis XIV's death, Philippe d'Orléans is the regent for the nine-year-old Louis XV. Philippe ...More
In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongin...More
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, ...More
In 1821,among the first British sailors to set foot on New Zealand, Phillip Wayne befriends a Maori tribe's chief, marries in England ...More
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being ...More
A story of a proud slave-owning family in the antebellum South and their eventual descent into adultery, incest, and sexual congress with...More
A young noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci, plots with her lover and her family to murder her crazed landowner, abusive father who keeps he...More
Living in an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley (Godwin at the time). Together wi...More