Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the High Middle Ages with Eleanor and get daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitane, through the Late Middle Ages with Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou and finishing with Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
"You who enter, leave all your hope behind." Själö was Finland's first mental hospital. The hospital...

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relation...

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediate...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, ...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

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

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...