1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union.

It tells the story of Hong Hai Er, who was already adopted by Guanyin Bodhisattva as the Fortune Kid...

1956. Three Hungarian friends hijack a plane to escape from the Iron Curtain.

A village in Cambodia. Bopha raises her son Sokhem alone. One night, guided by a strange voice, he s...

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahea...

In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, ...

San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Tog...

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal...

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Feli...

In 17th century Holland, a faction of royalists is scheming to restore the monarchy and jail the De ...

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties ...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol.

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the wo...

Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berru...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...