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.
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...
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She ...
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...
After the death of Octavian, the rebel populations of Illyria and Pannonia pose a grave threat to th...
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to...
Boudica is an innocent sixteen-year-old girl who is forced into an arranged marriage by her father, ...
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendar...
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pila...
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...
Going to the very heart of the Bible's most challenging Book, this one hour documentary decodes the ...
Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious ...