Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discover his father to be dead, Ondrej now not only assumes control of his father's properties, but seeks to marry his former stepmother.

In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen ...

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land...

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...

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

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster dau...

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red...

Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love wit...

Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. Whi...

A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — ...

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to wor...

In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to f...

Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. St...

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days...