Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.

A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a...

Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of Azerbaijani drama, a great public figure, who left...

On the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea lies one of the most megalomaniac projects built by the Nazis. The ‘Monster by the Sea’, a...

Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a team of experts, Worsley recreates the most...

The beautiful and dangerous lesbian slave trader Druscilla practices all the customs of Ancient Rome - everything in Excess. But even excess can have...

This short documentary follows historian Kate Taylor as she recounts John Wilkes Booth's final attempt to escape across the Potomac River.

This "March of Time" entry examines the many problems, both human and economic, that faced the Allies in their respective zones of Germany -- USA,...

In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay...