Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating between the sea and the sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how was this architectural wonder built?

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in m...

Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by reve...

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Documentary following a team of technicians in Italy as they reconstruct a number of historic Middle...

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide an...
A slide about the importance of accidental archaeological finds for the development of archaeologica...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on Ju...

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defe...

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...