Ancient Thrace: A Door to Immortality (2014)

Whether you are a Christian, atheist, or member of another faith, it's impossible to ignore the impact that Christianity has had on Western civilization. But most people don't actually know how Christianity began. In this lighthearted but factual film, we tell the "true" story of early Christianity. An honest attempt to piece together a very complex and fascinating story that everyone will enjoy.

Археолог Сигерд Свендсен уже много лет одержим историей судна викингов Осберг. Единственная надпись, найденная на этом корабле написана на языке рун и гласит: «человек знает мало». Сигерд уверен, что судно Осберг скрывает ответ на тайну о Рагнароке — конце дней в норвежской мифологии. Когда его друг Аллан находит подобные руны на камне с севера Норвегии, Сигерд убеждается, что руны — это карта сокровищ. Вместе они отправляются в экспедицию, которая заводит их в «нейтральную зону» между Норвегией и Россией, которая не населена уже многие десятилетия. Здесь Сигерд находит истинное значение рун, которые хранят ужасающую тайну.

Anitha, a government official, embarks on a journey to find Chandramouli, an archaeologist, who went to Vietnam to search for any existence of the prince of the Chola dynasty.

Мирон Алексеевич — директор бумажно-целлюлозного комбината — едет хоронить жену Таню в те места, где они когда-то проводили медовый месяц. Едет не один, а с фотографом по имени Аист, которому по дороге рассказывает трогательные подробности своей жизни с Таней. В повествование вплетаются воспоминания героев, а также обряды и верования народа мери — малочисленного финского племени, когда-то жившего в Северном Поволжье и растворившегося среди русских.

Рэйчел и Джейк, врач еврейского происхождения и правительственный бюрократ-араб, отправляются в опасное приключение из Лос-Анджелеса на Ближний Восток, чтобы распутать таинственную смерть брата Рэйчел, охотника за сокровищами. Их преследует группа религиозных фанатиков, считающая, что Рэйчел и Джейк владеют пропавшим Свитком Мертвого моря, который может приблизить Конец Света. Главным героям придется раскрыть убийство, найти свиток и научиться доверять друг другу.

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41), nicknamed Caligula? Professor Mary Beard explains what is accurate and what is mythical in the historical accounts that portray him as an unbalanced despot. Was he a sadistic tyrant, as Roman historians have told, or perhaps the truth about him was manipulated because of political interests?

In 16th century feudal Japan the war between the Iga clan and the Kouga clan continues unabated. Typically for such violent disputes it is the women who suffer the most – in this case lowly castrated Kouga clan ninjas are kidnapping woman from their rivals’ lands and transporting them back to their own, with the intent to use them as concubines. Unfortunately for a trio of inept Kouga ninjas, one of the women they’ve kidnapped is Kisaragi (Rina Takeda), a skilled ninja with a long standing vendetta since her mother was kidnapped when she was just a baby.

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an unproven event that is not mentioned by Titus Flavius Josephus, the main historian of that period.

Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large number of art pieces from all over the globe, from the Stone Age to the present day. A walk through their great institutions to marvel at their masterpieces.

A documentary about Hagia Sophia. But somewhere nobody seen or filmed before. Cisterns, wells and passages beneath the Hagia Sophia

Over the centuries, explorers traded tales of a lost civilization amid the dense Amazonian rainforest. Scientists dismissed the legends as exaggerations, believing that the rainforest could not sustain such a huge population—until now. A new generation of explorers armed with 21st-century technology has uncovered remarkable evidence that could reinvent our understanding of the Amazon and the indigenous peoples who lived there. Using CGI and dramatic re-creations, National Geographic re-imagines the banks of the Amazon 500 years ago, teeming with inhabitants living in the Lost Cities of the Amazon.

Вместе с Майклом Вудом мы отправляемся в путешествие по Сирии и Ираку, чтобы раскрыть тайну решающей битвы Александра Македонского против Персидской державы, состоявшейся в 331 году до нашей эры. Принято считать, что место сражения расположено вблизи города Эрбиль на севере Ирака, однако точное место установлено не было. При помощи клинописной глиняной таблички из Британского музея и древнеегипетского папируса удается пролить свет на ход событий, а реконструкция военной кампании помогает проследить путь Александра Македонского через Дамаск и Алеппо к реке Евфрат в Сирии.

Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Games, like our modern Olympics, included champions and cheaters, glory and scandals, bitter rivalries and contests of strength, speed and savage combat. Set in 448 BC when the pounding of horse's hooves and the brutal hand-to-hand combat could be heard and seen by the crowds that filled the Olympic stadium. This one-hour special event follows the glory and corruption of the arc of a single, five-day Olympiad. The competitions include chariot racing, running, jumping, discus, javelin and two man-to-man combat finals-boxing and pankration, a form of extreme fighting in which death was not uncommon. With the help of sports historians and great athletes such as George Chuvalo and Olympic medallists Donovan Bailey and Angela Schneider, viewers travel back to a very different life-in a very different world.

National Geographic follows archaeologist Ehud Natzer in his discovery of the tomb of Herod the Great.

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that soon lead to the uprising of the population and a cruel war that lasts several years and causes thousands of deaths, a catastrophe described in detail by the Romanized Jewish historian Titus Flavius Josephus.

The Great Year is a compelling documentary that explores the possibility that the fall of ancient civilizations around the globe, and the rise of modern civilization, might be related to our Sun’s motion around a companion star. The film examines evidence that ancient civilizations may have known of this celestial cycle and that our Sun may indeed display the characteristics of binary motion. Just as the Earth’s spin on its axis causes day and night and our planet’s annual orbit around the Sun is responsible for the ongoing cycle of the seasons, what if there is some greater celestial cycle, lasting thousands of years, slowly influencing the rise and fall of civilization across the globe? Where is the evidence? What could be the cause?

The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.

В 106-м году нашей эры никто и не помышлял о развале Римской империи. После решающей битвы пала столица даков, и императору Траяну принесли отрубленную голову дакийского царя Децебала. Во имя семьи, во имя любви, во имя чести — и после страшной гибели своего царя даки вновь поднимаются на битву с римлянами.

The 1st queen of the king dies in child birth, the prince survives. After the 2nd queen, gives birth to a new prince, she plots to kill the 1st prince, so that her son would get the crown after the king. A soldier senses this danger and ousts the prince to a rural village for survival. The village headman adopts the child without knowing the origin of the child. The prince gradually forgets his royalty, and grows up as a skillful and handsome farmer. After the death of the king, the soldier and religious leaders plan to bring the real prince to the crown.

In an ancient temple, Bayu found a Keris embedded in stone. Because of his curiousity, he pulled it. Then some strange things happened! Bayu got powers to be a Mighty Warrior. Too bad that the Keris is also a seal to a ruthless giant called Asura. The giant who had been sealed for thousands of years now resurrected to spread terrors to humanity. Accompanied by Rani, his cousin and an old ape named Empu Tandra, Bayu must face Asura and the League of Shadows. Can his journey prevail?