Advanced search

An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Follows orphan Pip, who spent his childhood as a blacksmith's apprentice and suddenly receives a windfall from an unknown benefactor that allows him to travel to London and enter high society.

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.

1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up. But it all goes south when Neuville reappears.

Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.

This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee indians, tries to do something. He plans a big indian state, and tries to win the English settlers over to this plan...

In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one district, is undermined by two families, feuding since the head of one shot the head of the other twenty years before. There are hopes of a reconciliation through a marriage of Pan Tadeusz, a Soplica, whose father, the murderer, is in hiding somewhere, and Zosia, a teen-aged girl, a Horeszko who lives in the household of Pan's uncle. Other cross-currents - of love, family, politics, village traditions, land reform, and what it means to be Polish - give the film texture. It's an exile's story.

The horrific story of Fr. Severino Mallari, a 19th century priest during the Spanish occupation and his descent into madness. It recounts Mallari's life where he reportedly murdered 57 people to aid his ailing mother.

It explores The Battle of Borodino through the eyes of Pierre.

During the War of 1812, the U.S. tasks Captain James Marshall to sail through the British blockade and bring back a French loan in gold but the secret leaks out and many greedy hands, including the mutinous crew's, are after the gold.

It explores the aftermath of The Battle of Borodino.

The project is dedicated to one of the most remarkable and dramatic periods in history - the Napoleonic Wars from 1803 to 1815. They were a continuation of the wars originally sparked off by the French Revolution of 1789 and threw Europe's armies into mobilization on an unprecedented scale. The Coup d'Etat on 9 November 1799 put France into the hands of a man endowed with a natural genius as a commander and almost unlimited ambition. The 'old order' of Europe was, at the time, in chaos and disunity, with governments operating independently of others, each engaged in the short-term pursuit of private gain and nationalist policies. These factors, together with the powerful army created by Napoleon, combined to make him lord of the European continent, part of his dream of creating a 'global monarchy', with France at its supreme head.

In 1812 Napoleon gathers the largest army of all times, of about 600.000 men from 24 controlled countries to invade Russia. 172 day later they will have to withdraw, 400.000 soldiers either killed or captured. Why dis this happen?

A look at the life, work and religious heritage of violinist Itzhak Perlman.

The Battle Of Borodino took place during Emperor Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion of 1812 and was one of the most crucial battles of the entire Napoleonic era. Featuring superb feature-film battle reconstructions, this is the story of the battle that forced Napoleon to turn for home and begin the infamous retreat from Moscow. The program also features period imagery and expert analysis by leading authorities on the Napoleonic war.

Abandoned by the British, occupied and plundered by the Americans - in the War of 1812 the people of Upper Canada's Western Frontier spend years living in a brutal war zone.

The program tells the history, both documented and supposed, of the Hope Diamond including the source of the legendary curse. Then the mystery of the deep blue color and red phosphorescence is partially explained.

On April 27, 1813, American forces defeated the British at York (present-day Toronto) and captured the capital of Upper Canada - but not before suffering their own losses. History Television's Explosion 1812 looks at the Battle of York and unearths new evidence around this lesser-known event from the War of 1812

From the invading navy's isolated base of operations in the center of the southern bay, Tangier Island, to the Battle of Caulk's Field in Kent County on Maryland's Eastern Shore where Captain Peter Parker met his fate, Maryland Public Television's War on the Chesapeake takes viewers to places where exciting history unfolded during those momentous years. Using humorous anecdotes; dramatic re-creations; stunning, newly-commissioned paintings of key battles, moments and heroes; graphics; artifacts; costumed players, and period music, War on the Chesapeake will be the definitive guide to exploring the War of 1812 in Maryland for history buffs and novices alike.

We explore how history "glosses over" the uncomfortable realities of a war between the United States, and what is now Canada.

1812 'Napoleon's Road to Moscow' is a record of one of history's greatest military disasters. Featuring dramatized reconstructions, period imagery and the latest 3-D computer graphics, the program follows the dramatic course of events, including the Battle Of Bordino and the cruel 'Retreat From Moscow' which claimed over half a million lives. The program also draws extensively on spectacular scenes from the Oscar-winning Russian film "War and Peace." Narrated by Robert Powell. Featuring commentary and analysis by Dr. David Chandler, former Head of War Studies at Sandhurst and author of "The Campaigns of Napoleon."

In 1812, a very young United States of America had its sights set on expansion to the north and the west. But the British wanted to keep its former colony tightly contained. In the balance were the lands of the Northwestern Frontier. England's Canadian provinces wanted a buffer zone between their lands and what they perceived as a hostile United States. The native peoples who called this land their home, wanted it declared a self-governing Indian territory; an independent nation. The United States wanted to settle the frontier, as they felt they had been promised at the end of the Revolutionary War. The frontier was a gateway to further western expansion; a Great Lakes highway to natural resources; and a military challenge to the combatants. The War of 1812 would decide who controlled the lands of the Northwestern Frontier, and the