Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Through the experiences, memories and writings of the people who lived it, this series tells the story of that time - the emperors and slaves, poets and plebeians, who wrested order from chaos, built the most cosmopolitan society the world had ever seen and shaped the Roman empire in the first century A.D.

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart hi...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

Documentary released to coincide with the British Museum's exhibition dedicated to the man who ruled...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers k...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhe...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that...

Going to the very heart of the Bible's most challenging Book, this one hour documentary decodes the ...

A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer...

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe...

ORGANIZED CRIME: A WORLD HISTORY travels the globe to get an insider's view of some of the most acti...

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...