Le film présente une scène de bataille navale de la guerre gréco-turque de 1897.
The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
Starring Max Charlier and Mlle Loisier, is a very rare and considered many years a lost film. Gaumont catalogue no 1590, the title was changed in "La terroriste."
Dramatization of the real-life shooting of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw.
Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.
Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.
Directed by Albert Capellani.
In 1916 the Santiago society shuddered with the crime of a wealthy businessman. Corina Rojas, his young wife, was the first woman sentenced to death in Chile and her story inspired the first national feature film.
Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Ukrainian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kyiv, in the then Russian Empire, in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the Beilis trial or Beilis affair.
A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
Les unités de la 77e division d'infanterie des États-Unis, surnommées « Lost Battalion », engagées dans la Première Guerre mondiale lors de l'offensive Meuse-Argonne d'octobre 1918, se retrouvent encerclées par les forces allemandes.
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
The case of Colonel Redl -- an officer blackmailed into spying by virtue of his homosexuality.
1919. Jeune sergent décoré pour sa bravoure lors de la Première Guerre Mondiale, James Allen vit mal son retour aux affaires courantes. Etouffé par sa famille, et un travail en usine qui n’épouse pas ses nouvelles ambitions, il prend son baluchon et traverse les Etats-Unis dans l’espoir de trouver un emploi dans le bâtiment. Il doit rapidement déchanter : la crise frappe le pays de plein fouet, et chaque étape de son périple est une nouvelle désillusion. Un soir, Allen, affamé, est embringué à ses dépens dans un hold-up minable qui tourne mal. Il prend 10 ans, pour un crime qu’il n’a pas commis, et est transféré dans un des pires bagnes du pays. Le cauchemar commence.
Comment après avoir usé et assassiné plusieurs femmes, le terrible Henry VIII se laissera mener par le bout du nez jusqu'à un âge avancé par Catherine Parr.
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.
En 1797, le HMS Bounty quitte l’Angleterre sous le commandement du capitaine Bligh à destination de Tahiti via le Cap Horn. Le capitaine Bligh qui ne connaît que la loi de la peur, affame ses hommes et les maltraite. Le lieutenant Fletcher Christian va s’apposer à lui et organiser une mutinerie.