The Birth of the Middle Ages
About the title: This program provides an introduction to medieval Europe by showing surviving traces to provide a feel of medieval style and practice and by tracing the roots of the fall of civilization and the onset of darkness. Much that is medie...
The City of God
About the title: Augustine of Hippo is a symbol of humankind in early medieval times, seeking to understand the terror and destruction resulting from the barbarian devastations of the Roman world, seeking to find the hand of God—and finding it in ...
Simón Bolívar: The Great Liberator
Here is a portrait of Simón Bolívar—aristocratic revolutionary, victor in battle, and loser to those who considered the revolution their personal mandate—and of the landscapes and forces that shaped the Latin America of his day and ours. This ...
Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire
About the title: Out of the ashes of the Roman Empire rose the Holy Roman Empire, born during Christmas of 800 in the Basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome. This program covers the antecedents and the life of Charlemagne, shows life at the court, life o...
Byzantium: From Splendor to Ruin
About the title: This program covers the founding of Constantinople as a second Rome, its flowering when the Roman Empire in the West was shattered, its gradual decline under the impact of Normans, Turks, Venetians, and the Crusades, and finally, it...
Johann Sebastian Bach: a documentary portrait
This first-class documentary biography of Bach shows us the places and the documents of his life: the houses in which he lived, the organs on which he played, the report cards he got in school, and the letters he wrote to excuse his innovations and ...
Vikings and Normans
About the title: The Vikings were farmers and food gatherers, fierce and violent in battle, with family and clan loyalties that lasted beyond life. This program covers the Viking sea prowess and explorations: Viking influences in England and Scotlan...
The conquest of Mexico:
This program provides a portrait of Cortez and his world - the real world and the imaginary one painted by theologians, mystics, imaginative travelers, poets, and liars; of the New World as seen by a small number of Spaniards; and of the civilizatio...