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 depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," be...
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of mo...
An account of the life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the first female ar...
Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Bo...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was ...
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she w...
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...
Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a tea...
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a mov...
Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their...
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
Kingdom of Joseon, ancient Korea. A usurper has conquered the throne. His ministers are being system...
Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most ext...
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
In 1553, England’s first Queen, Mary I, takes the throne. The country is on the brink of chaos, and ...