A look back at a cruel conflict, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which changed the political geography of Europe and sowed the seeds of a deep antagonism between France and Germany that culminated in two world wars. Excerpts from the diaries of the witnesses, photographs and painted panoramas tell the truth about a forgotten war.
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises t...
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, is an unscrupulous and beautiful woman, in love with Andr...
In September 1897, 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikh regiment of the British Indian Army defend an army o...
The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and ...
Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versa...
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, ...
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his o...
This docuseries follows the 2011 sexual assault case involving French politician Dominique Strauss-K...
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest b...
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional Br...
Ian Hislop rescues the reputation of the maverick 'Do-Gooders' who he believes fixed the 19th centur...
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strateg...
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confede...