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.
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
Bernhard Oestreich, called Bernd, son of one of the leaders of the Golzow LPG, did not stay in the c...
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documenta...
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
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...
For almost two thousand years, the story of Jesus’ final days has been celebrated by Christians the ...
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixi...
The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon t...
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to...
Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious ...
Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
After the death of Emperor Constantine in Rome, the persecutions of the Christians threaten the cent...
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of bl...
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist orga...
Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners ...