It was the battle that decided the future of Europe: on August 26, 1278, two dynasties faced each other at Marchfeld. On one side was the Roman-German King Rudolf I from the House of Habsburg, on the other Ottokar II from the Bohemian Přemyslid dynasty. Rudolf's victory over Ottokar laid the foundations for the unprecedented rise of the Habsburg Empire, which was to play a decisive role in Europe for more than six centuries.

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

Documentary following a team of technicians in Italy as they reconstruct a number of historic Middle...

The battles between the ruling empires and houses of nobility that would decide the fate of the Cauc...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody...

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...