Hvordan bliver en irsk knægt uden fremtidsmuligheder en del af 1700-tallets engelske adel? For Barry Lyndon er svaret: Ved hjælp af alle kneb. Han er på ingen måde tilfreds med sin ydmyge herkomst og opvækst, så han er fast besluttet på at søge lykke, magt og penge ved at drage ud i verden. Gennem held, handlekraft og romantiske eskapader lykkes det Barry at blive en holden mand i det krigshærgede Europa i 1700-tallet. Men i processen er han også blevet kold og beregnende, og prisen for succes viser sig at være høj.

Eva, a mysterious doctor, searches for an answer to her urgent dilemma as she unravels Dr. Anmuth's Book of Vision. Henry gets involved in her life and is forced to confront his own nature, as Eva faces the biggest decision of her life.

King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going well. The Austrians are inflicting major casualties, and his army is beginning to crumble. Defeat seems inevitable when a combination of events gives him hope that he may pull victory from the jaws of defeat after all.

Marie is an adolescent woman who lives in Prussia in 1813 with her mother, a countess. They live in a palace watching the path of history from a far point of view.

Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.

This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm. After the war, the King - in an unwarranted move - deprives the major of his honor. Von Tellheim becomes impoverished and, filled with shame, breaks off his relationship to Minna. An innkeeper in Berlin, who is a police informer, makes the Major move to a shabby little attic because he cannot pay his debt. In the meantime, Minna has also arrived at the inn. She and her lady's maid Franziska are questioned and spied on by the nosy innkeeper. Minna has followed her beloved Tellheim and she now cunningly manages to elicit a new declaration of love from him...

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of this special place.