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.

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

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held ...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and...

Aaron Eliyahu, a Jewish man, travels to a small village called Mala, Kerala in search of his Jewish ...

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

A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...

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

Following the death of Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980), one city in each of the six republics and two au...

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a...

16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal

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...

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...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

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