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.

Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battl...

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",...

National Geographic follows archaeologist and explorer Fabio Amador on a fascinating voyage to unvei...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, ...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...

Tells the story of the legendary 16th century naval captain Mohammed, a brave warrior and merchant s...

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

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

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

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

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

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

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a M...

Spanish jurist and republican thinker Antonio García-Trevijano (1927-2018) expounds his political th...