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.

After winning yet another battle, Jorge is decorated as the new captain of the army, and now finds h...

Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...

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The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in ...

The story of Yeshe Dolma, and her turbulent marriage to a proud warrior, Jiacuo, across half a centu...
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sen...

The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...

Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernic...
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.

While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, ...

2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his po...

Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scrapin...

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

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

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

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.