During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

A thirty-minute High Definition documentary which revisits that winter of 1779-80 when Washington’s ...

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He m...
1795, Holland. The French vanguard is pushing towards the north, through a strong blizzard, beyond t...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Set in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care ...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

In a Maori settlement, Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha composes the famous chant "Ka Mate", also known...

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the le...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreat...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontaineble...