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.

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family wi...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

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...

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

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

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

Each year Lucia volunteers at a Summer Camp in Sicily. This summer however, will be the hottest on r...

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

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

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

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...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

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

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

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...