Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
In 48 BC Cleopatra facing palace revolt in her kingdom of Egypt welcomes the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Rome. When Caesar whom she has led astray is killed she transfers her affections to Marc Antony and dazzles him on a barge full of DeMillean splendor. But the trick may not work a third...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
In 48 B.C. Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister Cleopatra attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey borne by his governors Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesars support from her brother Cleopatra hides herself in a rug which Apollodorus her servant presents to Caesar. The...
Country: United States, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama
Cleopatra the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C. is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen beds her and eventually has a son by her. However his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife he had picked Octavian as his successor. The...
Country: France, Belgium
Genre: Biography, Drama
Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. Shes both a seamstress for the performers and a singer earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entrée into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Betty Anne Waters Swank is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brothers Rockwell unjust murder...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, News
The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman despite the injustices she has experienced first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil...
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