In 1890, in one of the villages of Ukrainian Polissia, a man died under mysterious circumstances. The locals blamed his wife, a young healer, and banished her from the village. When affliction came to the village, people believed they had been cursed by the castaway woman. They discovered she was living in the forest, found her and burned her alive as a witch. But before doing it, they sent a priest to have a final conversation with her.
Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art in the world. Project after project, the museum has been transformed to modernize and welcome more visitors, while preserving its historic character. Challenges taken up with each new project.
On a full moon night in London, a young lady called Victoria is being chased by the famous serial killer Jack the Ripper.
Seeking the true Church of Jesus Christ, 14-year-old Joseph Smith prayed in a grove of trees near his home in Palmyra, New York. In answer to his humble prayer, Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ visited him and told him that he must not join any of the churches on the earth at that time.
The late 19th century war between Chile and Peru rages on. The battle has now moved to Arica and Tacna.
A film based on the 1890s play of the same name, The Village Postmaster surrounds a love triangle and the implications of love, deceit, and fraud.
A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.
Set in 1867, the year of the great famine in Finland. A farmer’s wife sets off on foot through the snow with her two young children towards St. Petersburg.
The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mass media prior to the era of mass media, a virtual reality on canvas.
Normandy, 1905. The picnic is finished. A group of middle-class people in their Sunday best, get ready to go home. There is one last photo to be taken, but somebody is missing
Stefan Luchian is a passionate painter who rebels against conservative art groups, determined to create a new form of art that celebrates beauty and nature's wonders, while racing against time to leave his artistic legacy before his illness overtakes him.