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.

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria...

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the p...

Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, t...

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys...

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the surviv...

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

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...

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 ...