A journey through the Spain of the Baroque, the glorious 17th century, an unfortunate era of endless wars and political tribulations; but also of great painters and sculptors who created astonishing pieces of art: el Siglo de Oro.

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its ...
The magnificent murals at St. Nicholas Church in Millvale, painted by Maxo Vanka in the late 1930s, ...

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the for...
In Garcia Lorca's mother tongue, death is a woman: "la muerte". Daniel slips into the role of "death...

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

Few artist portraits give us the privilege of getting as close to the painter as if we had free acce...

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

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614),...

Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929...

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

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an appar...

It is 1680 – the time of dreamt snow after the Turkish invasion. In the deserted plains of Bácska a ...

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of th...

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...

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

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the ancient Christian practice of preserving holy relics and the largel...

Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, b...