What life was like in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii moments before it was devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to...

For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an a...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

Over 90 percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco region of the Southwest have already bee...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

Photographer Mike Lassiter journeys across South Carolina capturing the stories of historic, often f...
A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music...

After the death of Emperor Constantine in Rome, the persecutions of the Christians threaten the cent...

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Hawaii, with its tropical rainforests and diverse coral reef is a spectacular natural paradise for t...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

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

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there,...