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.
Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of art...
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist orga...
David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no un...
The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French cou...
In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a...
Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the father" respectively...
Follows a trail of over 10 museums and 150 artworks amongst the most well-known in the world. It is ...
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Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhe...
A BBC miniseries about Nigel Marvin's quest to bring the extinct dinosaurs through time to Prehistor...
3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante...
Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, ...
Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849.
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes...
The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon t...
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to Engla...
This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and car...
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