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.

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her hal...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

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

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

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

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accom...

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past ...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

A group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ...

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be Ki...

Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...