The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
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.
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
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.
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.
