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.

Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and he...

Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-...

Lucy Worsley gets into bed with our past monarchs to uncover the Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. Sh...

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary pla...
Sir John Falstaff, a bon vivant and womanizer, courts Mrs. Ford one day and Mrs. Page the next. They...

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...

Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth travels to the West Yorkshire moors, known as "Bronte Country". It is an...
Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and empe...

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3...

As a nun, Katharina von Bora lives the life destined for her until she comes into contact with a com...

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Ran...

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her mar...

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as a...

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...

After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent ...

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece...
Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie H...

The film is a historic parable about the topicality of revolution. 1514. The peasants' uprising is o...

Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and so...

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the E...