Spain, 1519. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator in the service of King Charles I, undertakes, at the command of five ships, a commercial expedition to the Moluccas. The story of the first circumnavigation of the world, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano in 1522.

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

Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold",...

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

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

The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with D...

A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountai...

The film is a historic parable about the topicality of revolution. 1514. The peasants' uprising is o...

The film concerns the life of King Naresuan, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma. Bo...

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,...

With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James...

Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunat...

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. ...

In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish ...

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

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who...

A documentary covering Charles de Jaeger and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's eight-day journey around the w...
In 1553, England’s first Queen, Mary I, takes the throne. The country is on the brink of chaos, and ...

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in...