Fiction Videos

Born on September 9, 1828, Leo Tolstoy was the writer of still-famous 19th-century Russian masterpieces. See him in this rare video from the Russian S...

Macbeth was a real king of the Scots who ruled in the 11th century.

Nero became the Emperor of Rome in 54 AD.

A silent film by F.W. Murnau, which still defines the horror genre, Nosferatu was ordered destroyed by a British court.  Bram Stoker’s w...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a novel about what it was like to be a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp in Siberia's GULAG.

One of the greatest musicians in Greece, Orpheus plays so beautifully that Eurydice (a wood nymph) is released from her tree-trunk domain.

Part two of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Part three of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.

During the years of the Great Depression, the U.

Perseus - an ancestor of Heracles in Greek mythology (Hercules in Roman) - was cast adrift in a sea chest not long after he was born.

After Perseus became a young man, he was sent on a mission to destroy a once-beautiful-girl-turned-monster, named Medusa:When Perseus was grown up Pol...

Perseus, so the legends say, was a son of Zeus. But ... he was a demigod because his mother was a mortal.