Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.