Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, ca...

The life of Moses as told through the Book of Exodus, the imagination of a dying boy, and the ballad...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenl...

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing ...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristo...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the busine...

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegu...

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

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are the...

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...

A Christian missionary group is abducted by Islamic rebels. In fear for their lives, the group slowl...

The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around wome...