Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

A nobleman bribes a maidservant to gain access to the palace and poison the crown prince. Another no...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, ...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a M...
Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie H...

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in P...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahea...

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak ...