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.
Survivors and first responders share personal stories of anguish, kindness and bravery that unfolded...
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises t...
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional Br...
The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and ...
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, is an unscrupulous and beautiful woman, in love with Andr...
This docuseries includes never-before-seen material from the infamous 51-day standoff between federa...
Sandburg's Lincoln is a six-part mini-series starring Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth...
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, ...
Dr James Fox tells the story of three cities in three exceptional years - cities whose artists and t...
North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catas...
Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versa...
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strateg...
In September 1897, 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikh regiment of the British Indian Army defend an army o...
In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what...
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...