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.

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to Engla...

The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...

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

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhe...
A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that...

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon t...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in ce...

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

Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious ...

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. ...