Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality. Includes the real history of the "first thanksgiving".

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614),...

In his tower-block apartment in New Lodge, Joe reenacts memories from his childhood amidst the “Trou...

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegu...

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the...

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the count...

Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Th...

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when sh...

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...

Julia always said that her upbringing as a biological child in a foster family was a happy time. But...

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of th...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...