From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would also ignite the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history -- the European Renaissance. But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash would one day topple their ordered world.

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Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849.

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The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist orga...

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David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no un...

A BBC miniseries about Nigel Marvin's quest to bring the extinct dinosaurs through time to Prehistor...

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