Mar Caribe, siglo XVIII. El aventurero capitán Jack Sparrow piratea en aguas caribeñas, pero su andanzas terminan cuando su enemigo, el Capitán Barbossa, después de robarle su barco, el Perla Negra, ataca la ciudad de Port Royal y secuestra a Elizabeth Swann, la hija del Gobernador. Will Turner, amigo de la infancia de Elizabeth, se une a Jack para rescatarla y recuperar el Perla Negra. Pero Barbossa y su tripulación son víctimas de un conjuro que los condena a vivir eternamente y a transformarse cada noche en esqueletos vivientes. El conjuro sólo puede romperse si devuelven una pieza de oro azteca y saldan una deuda de sangre. El rescate de la bella Elizabeth será una tarea difícil, pues la maldición es real y será difícil enfrentarse con quienes no pueden morir.
Siguiendo la estela de lo sucedido en “Piratas del Caribe: El cofre de la muerte”, nuestros héroes, Will Turner y Elizabeth Swann, se han aliado con el capitán Barbossa para buscar y liberar al capitán Jack Sparrow del poder de Davy Jones. Mientras el Holandés Errante y la East India Trading Company causan estragos a lo largo de los Siete Mares, Will y Elizabeth navegan hacia Singapur, donde deben enfrentarse al astuto pirata chino Sao Feng. Ahora, en los mismísimos confines de la tierra, todos ellos deben elegir un bando en la batalla final, ya que no sólo sus vidas y fortunas, sino también el futuro de la piratería clásica, pende de un hilo.
Will Turner y Elizabeth Swann se van a casar, pero ambos son hechos prisioneros por Lord Cutler Beckett y acusados de haber liberado al capitán Jack Sparrow. Para salvar su vida Will tendrá que encontrar a Jack y conseguir su misteriosa brújula, que esconde un gran poder además de la clave de una deuda de sangre del pirata con un temible y siniestro Davy Jones, el legendario capitán del barco fantasma El Holandés Errante.
Tailandia, finales del siglo XIX. La vida de la institutriz británica Anna Leonowens, contratada por el Rey de Siam para que educara a sus cincuenta y ocho vástagos. Nada más llegar a estas desconocidas y exóticas tierras, Anna se ve inmersa en una lucha de ingenio con el obstinado soberano. Basada en hechos reales.
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.
Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance...
The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.
Set in the backdrop of the seventeenth century, the royal family of Kottayam is ruled by Pazhassi. The British government begins to impose heavy taxes on the locals in the Thalassery region of Kerala.
In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea. Inundated by the drugs, China was forced to open up its market, and the British consolidated their commercial dominance. In 1839, the Middle Empire introduced prohibition. The Opium War was declared… Great Britain emerged as the winner, but the warning was heeded: it could no longer depend on Chinese tea. The only alternative possible was to produce its own tea. The East India Company therefore entrusted one man with finding the secrets of the precious beverage. His mission was to develop the first plantations in Britain’s Indian colonies. This latter-day James Bond was called Robert Fortune – a botanist. After overcoming innumerable ordeals in the heart of imperial China, he brought back the plants and techniques that gave rise to Darjeeling tea.
Historian William Dalrymple travels to Hyderabad in India to explore the remarkable 18th-century love affair between a British diplomat and the Muslim princess he married. Tensions ran high when an Englishman fell for a Mughal ruler's daughter.