Abdul Karim, a young prison clerk from British India, is instructed to travel to Britain for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 to present her with a mohur, a gold coin that has been minted as a token of appreciation from British-ruled India.

In summer 1953, some eighteen months after Churchill has become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time, he suffers a serious stroke.

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In 1934, Winston Churchill is deep in his wilderness years, and struggling to complete his biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough, which he hopes will revive his fortunes.

In 1607, Pocahontas, the adventurous daughter of Chief Powhatan, and others from her tribe witness the arrival of three ships sent by English royal charter to found a colony in the New World.

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In 1991, the remains of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family (except for Alexei and Maria) are discovered.

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At the end of the 19th century, Joseph Ferdinand Cheval (Jacques Gamblin), is a simple postman who travels every day along the Drôme, from village to village.

The film begins during a thunderstorm in 1505, as Luther is returning to his home.

In South Africa in 1980, Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man, is accused of carrying out a terrorist attack.

The movie starts on April 11, 1972. Nixon's advisers at the White House ask Mark Felt how to ask J. Edgar Hoover to step aside as the FBI director.

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France.

The story of Milada Horáková, democratic pre-WW2 Czech politician who was arrested and tried by the Nazis during World War II.

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In a series of flashbacks, Maria Altmann recalls Anschluss, the arrival of Nazi forces in Vienna, the persecution of the Jewish community and the looting and pillaging by the Nazis against Jewish families.

In the 1950s, James Whale, the director of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, has retired.

The film begins with a scene of the 1920 presidential election, in which Harvard educated lawyer, New York assemblyman and assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D.