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.

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

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

Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pai...

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

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

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

China is the only civilization that continues to hold sway throughout its entire territory as define...

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his cla...

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

After the death of Octavian, the rebel populations of Illyria and Pannonia pose a grave threat to th...

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 ...

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...