Plenty of great war movies also count as epics, with classics like Lawrence of Arabia, War and Peace, and The Great Escape ...

Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow became a brutal, slow-motion disaster that shattered the largest army Europe had ever seen.

The producers of the annual Joan of Arc Parade will host a free conference about the historical figure, plus what to know ...

Beginning the bombardment in earnest, a red-hot cannonball scored a direct hit on the magazine, igniting all that gunpowder.

Never interrupt the enemy when they are making a mistake, counselled Napoleon. Yet Russia, with its latest spate of drone ...

"Why Was France So Useless in the Franco-Prussian War? When we think of France’s military failures, we often remember its defeat in World War II. But before that, there was an even more humiliating ...

Today, the Workhouse remains a significant historical and architectural landmark, reinvented as a heritage centre that houses ...

One war series, based on a bestselling book, has been hailed as the "best BBC period drama". War and Peace is a historical ...

Audiences agree that Leonardo DiCaprio's One Battle After Another is a modern masterpiece, setting a CinemaScore record for ...

Guillermo del Toro, who was named this year’s artistic director at the AFI Fest, has revealed the films that he has selected ...

To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or ...