Depicts life in the Middle Ages, showing medieval villagers, including a reeve and a serf, explaining something of their life and work.
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in m...
Part of BBC Arena's Animal Night, this film chronicles a strange era in history when animals were pu...
Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...
This is the story of the Bohemian King, Přemysl Otakar II, and the forgotten pilgrim, Odorik, who wa...
Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, i...
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spect...
England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film...
Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehist...
Historian David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation and how it transformed the fac...
It began much like the common cold. Yet within a day fever took over black swellings the size of bas...
It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with...
He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopt...
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to f...
Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number ...
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spell...