Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military pe...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at ...

Sulan, who works in a factory in the summer of 1978, begins learning photos with other female worker...

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin ...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

Explores the story of three children who claimed to have witnessed visitations of the Virgin Mary in...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendar...