Famous for lines like 'It is better to be feared than loved', Machiavelli's notorious book, The Prince, has been a manual for tyrants from Napoleon to Stalin. But how relevant is The Prince today, and who are the 21st century Machiavellians?
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe...
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class R...
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as...
At the turn of the 19th and 20th century Finnish philologist G. J. Ramstedt travelled around Mongoli...
Follows a trail of over 10 museums and 150 artworks amongst the most well-known in the world. It is ...
An Iranian diplomat who miraculously survived Taliban's raid on the Iranian consulate in Mazar E Sha...
This short film provides a glimpse at famous art galleries of Rome, Florence, and the Vatican.
Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mo...
In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany ha...
A profile of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, the film covers his role in saving the lives of Jewi...
Four neighborhoods. Four churches. Four colors. Blue. Red. White. Green. A square. A ball. Two goals...
Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.
A documentary about American diplomats narrated by Kathleen Turner
Using a thermo-camera to reveal long-lost artworks and never-before-seen architectural layers in som...
He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopt...
Independence Day celebrations at the Finnish presidential palace December 6, 1960.
This TravelTalk short focuses on the ancient ruins in Rome, the leaning tower of Pisa, and the archi...
The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi (1897 – 1967), who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 19...