Visionary Picks In Alignment with the style of Don Bosco: Cult Guide

Dir: Henry Kolker

The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.

Dir: Heinz Goldberg

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Paganini perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Cecil B. DeMille

After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, and the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy.

Dir: Arthur Günsburg

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Ten Commandments perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edwin L. Hollywood

The story of Columbus' seven year struggle to gain backing for his voyage to America. Previous ventures to the North American continent by Asians, Phoenicians and Norsemen are also acknowledged.

Dir: J. Gordon Edwards

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Die Tragödie eines Großen perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Biography portraying the life of the Roman Emperor Nero.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

The youngest brother of Napoleon, Jerome, who, after the unfortunate peace of Tilsit, on August 18, 1807, took control of the newly created kingdom of Westphalia, holds his splendid court at Schloss Wilhelmshoehe near Kassel. In the magnificent surroundings of the castle, its beautiful parks and the charming water features, he spends his time in happy garden parties.

Dir: Charles Calvert

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Christopher Columbus perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.

Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death.