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...
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst Europea...
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in...
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotia...
Lavish documentary in which historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb unfolds the extraordinary story of the tu...
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," be...
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he...
The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe impris...
Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert's role in shaping British culture, governmental policy a...
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...
A video polemic, based on Heathcote Williams' investigative poem 'Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record...
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 black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many ...
In 1543, at the University of Salamanca, in Spain, Fray Antonio Román, an Augustinian monk who sprea...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...