Up to one million gladiators are thought to have died in arenas across the Roman Empire. And, although fascination with gladiators has been high, the details of their lives and deaths remain fragmentary. Now, with the discovery of an ancient Roman burial site containing 80 skeletons thought to be gladiator warriors, National Geographic recreates the world of the Roman arena and how six gladiators lived, fought and died.

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by reve...

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

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrai...

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...

What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...

Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Throu...

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

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

Documentary following the 1955–1956 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition's investigations of Polynesi...