Stéphane Bern tells the story of King Louis XVI, deposed by the revolution and guillotined on January 21st, 1793. He was a cultured man, passionate about the technical advances of his time, but powerless against the huge deficit in the country. He actively supported the birth of the USA. Louis XVI was the last king to live in the palace of Versailles, where he organized the first flight of a balloon, launched the legendary expedition of Jean-Francois de La Perouse and offered his wife Marie Antoinette, the beautiful setting of the Petit Trianon, as million visitors around the world continue to admire.

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

Keith Garner visits historical locations, elegant chapels and bustling city centres as he discovers ...

A biography of Charles Wesley, father of the Weselyan Church, hymn writer, and preacher.

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal...

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when t...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of Ki...

In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prag...

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, ...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becom...

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son ...

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicat...

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...

1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs t...