The Cult Collection Comparable to the Style of Pergolesi: Cult Guide

Dir: Guido Brignone

Socrate, a weird parrot, one day flies away through an open window.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of So sind die Männer perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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: J. Gordon Edwards

Biography portraying the life of the Roman Emperor Nero.

Dir: Charles Calvert

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Nero 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: Alexander Butler

Napoleon, divorces Josephine and weds an Austrian Princess, but Josephine, still faithful, saves him from the plotting of De Beaumont.

Dir: Curt Goetz

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

Despite his wish to become a pastor, Friedrich Schiller is ordered to join a military school. There, he begins to write poetry...

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: Henry Kolker

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

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

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.

Dir: Rolf Raffé

The fateful last days in the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.