King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of…

An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns;…

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she’d spoken to God, Jeanne d’Arc…

Little Buddha is a film about the life span of Siddhartha starring Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the…

No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen — the event became the stuff of modern…