The French Revolution

LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ: A new republic is born in blood.

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage followed, bringing about the end of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order.

'The French Revolution' is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization. With dramatic reenactments, illustrations, and paintings from the era, plus revealing accounts from journals and expert commentary from historians, 'The French Revolution' vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence, discontent and fundamental change.