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.
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
Documentary released to coincide with the British Museum's exhibition dedicated to the man who ruled...
Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendar...
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pila...
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...
Rome, 2000 years ago was the world's first ancient megacity. In a world where few towns had more tha...
A documentary about Hannibal Barca - the general and ruler of New Carthage, who crossed the Alps in ...
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...
Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scrapin...
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
With the help of a team of experts and the latest in 3-D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong, a...
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...
Expert interviews, dramatic reconstructions and location shooting bring to life the iconic legend of...
Up to one million gladiators are thought to have died in arenas across the Roman Empire. And, althou...