Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was written and presented by Terry Jones, and it challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian. Professor Barry Cunliffe of the University of Oxford acted as consultant for the series.
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Throu...
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...
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...
For almost two thousand years, the story of Jesus’ final days has been celebrated by Christians the ...
After the death of Octavian, the rebel populations of Illyria and Pannonia pose a grave threat to th...
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Game...
Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendar...
It was the battle that decided the future of Europe: on August 26, 1278, two dynasties faced each ot...
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...