Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophi...

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

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...

This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events ...

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festiv...

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and d...

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

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...

The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early...

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemenc...

A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

In the 17th century, seven swordsmen join their forces to save the villagers from a manipulating Gen...

Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-c...

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

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

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

An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and save...

Commander Qinglong is the loyal leader of the assassin group that serves the emperor. But when his a...

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the...

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