This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.
Elshuma
Царь Иосия решил очистить свою землю от языческих культов, истребляя капища Ваала и Астарты. В это время Иеремия, призванный на высшее пророческое служение, словом и делом поддерживал царя. После смерти Иосии начались религиозный разброд и политическая смута. Народ перестал верить пророчествам Иеремии, и сам он, как нарушитель общественного порядка, подвергался гонениям…
Lieutenant Chadd
1793 год. В Европе началась эпоха войн и революций. Семнадцатилетний Горацио Хорнблауэр поступает на службу в британский королевский флот. Юный мичман страдает от морской болезни и терпит унижения от жестокого сослуживца Симпсона. После объявления войны Франции у Хорнблауэра появляется возможность проявить себя в сражениях с врагом и отстоять свою честь на дуэли.
Baigent
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Fridon
Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor (Emma Fielding) in this period tearjerker adapted from a short story by Thomas Hardy. Longing to escape their own personal imprisonments -- he, his service to the king, and she, her engagement to a man she doesn't love -- they find solace in each other's arms.
Jonathan Strachey
Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous private life of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s. The mini series charts Mosley's rise to political notoriety through his personal life – from youthful rising star of the Conservative Party to potential leader of the Labour Party, and later abandonment of conventional party politics to become a figurehead of burgeoning fascism.
