Between the end of the Middle Ages and the late 18th century, over 50,000 Europeans were persecuted, tortured and executed on charges of witchcraft. The pogrom was triggered by the book 'Malleus Maleficarum', published in 1486. Its detailed instructions for persecuting and annihilating alleged witches triggered a mass hysteria.

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, ...

The Marquis d’Urfé finds refuge in the home of a strange family after becoming lost in a hostile for...

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude F...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor beco...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version f...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

The era of palace coups in Russia ended with the coronation of a prominent historical figure: Cather...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

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