This series retraces the origins and journeys of major European works of international significance, whose original manuscript has survived through the ages. Each film attempts to analyze an original manuscript as if it were a crucial clue, in hopes to reveal the secrets behind each work.
Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain's greatest love poets, John Donne.
Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps o...
Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall i...
The Kusaribe family is a family of sorcerers under the protection of the ‘Tree of Origins.’ Their pr...
An Italian adaptation of Henry James's 1902 novel of the same name. The series is a dramatic interpr...
1837: Another year of the grueling Caucasian war. A young officer, Grigory Pechorin, was sent into e...
The crown of England has been hotly contested throughout history, and in the Middle Ages, a series o...
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the...
The series "Chernobyl - The Catastrophe" is a search for clues to the truth. How did the nuclear pow...
Revelations about ten of the world's most infamous human catastrophes, from substandard materials to...
Little-known events that played a large role in determining the outcome of World War II are revealed...
John Sergeant, Peter Davison and Paul Middleton travel from London to Scotland using only the power ...
Science-based documentary about the extraordinary wonders of one of the last intact wild places left...
Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Calypso set sail to research far-off cultures and specie...
Celebrating one of the most beloved and durable television genres and reflecting on the changing fac...
This docuseries takes an unconventional approach to the epic tale of the famed reality-competition s...