In this two-hour H2 special, historian and weapons expert Mike Loades goes medieval diving deep into the world of the Middle Ages. From the 5th to the 15th centuries, Mike battles the realities vs. the myths of this extraordinary time crusading for the core of real life while delivering fun-filled facts. From living, working and fighting to how to keep a knight's armor shiny using a vigorous rub of sand, vinegar and urine, Going Medieval is an expert account of life during medieval times.
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...
Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia...
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster dau...
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to...
Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 to 2008, guides viewers...
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A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of ...
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the ...
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes...
The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Ho...
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the f...
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of...
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...
In medieval Serbia, a young monk, a master of herbal medicine, grabs the attention of warlord's wife...
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A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of ...