History

During Captain James Cook’s first voyage, in 1770, he discovered the east coast of Australia. He later recommended Australia as a future British colony. Read More »

Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Read More »

Frisian-spoken costume drama about the turbulent marriage between a writer and a socialist politician. Read More »

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. Read More »

The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphans, Jewish refugees of the concentration camps. Read More »

Historical drama about Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolívar who helped much of Latin America to achieve independence from Spain. Read More »

A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II. Read More »

France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. Read More »

The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »

Year 67 A.D. the ruler of Corinth is a fan of Nero. Fails to set fire to his hometown, dedicated to the worship of Aphrodite, goddess of love Read More »