Depicts life in the Middle Ages, showing medieval villagers, including a reeve and a serf, explaining something of their life and work.

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopt...

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film...

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...

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...
On October 11, 1424, Hussite commander Jan Žižka breathed his last breath near the castle in Přibysl...

It began much like the common cold. Yet within a day fever took over black swellings the size of bas...

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...

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...
Part of BBC Arena's Animal Night, this film chronicles a strange era in history when animals were pu...

It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with...

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in m...

As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. Ther...
Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical

An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spell...

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...