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.

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

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman livi...

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon w...

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

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

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, cla...

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of ...

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

Two angels glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisib...

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

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

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

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

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

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 ...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...