An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938. ...

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. ...

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. ...

The Knight Jean de Carrouges must settle the dispute over his wife Marguerite by challenging his former friend to a duel to the death. ...

Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles. ...

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity. ...

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II. ...

A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare. ...

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester. ...

Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive, followed by the sheriff; when things deteriorate badly, Fanny must make drastic decisions about her life. ...

In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months. ...

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. ...

A true David vs. Goliath story of how the 14th century Scottish 'Outlaw King' Robert the Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army. ...

A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government. ...

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire. ...

Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution. ...

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. ...

A man explores the memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain and gains the skills of a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, to confront the oppressive Templar organization in the present day. ...