Stichwort European History

Sechs Millionen Juden starben während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, sowohl in den Vernichtungslagern als auch durch die mobilen Kommandos der...

Leben und Werk der deutschen politischen Philosophin jüdischer Abstammung Hannah Arendt (1906-75), die für Aufsehen sorgte, als sie 1963 in...

Vor 400 Jahren kam in Moskau ein Mann aus dem Geschlecht der Romanows auf den russischen Thron: Michail Romanow. Seitdem beeinflussen Machtinstinkt...

Der Prager Fenstersturz, der am 23. Mai 1618 stattfand, war der entscheidende historische Moment, der den Dreißigjährigen Krieg...

Das unglaubliche Leben von Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): Sohn eines republikanischen Intellektuellen; Exil in den frühen Tagen des...

Der flämische Maler, Humanist und Diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) hatte das Glück, schon zu Lebzeiten als genialer Künstler und...

Der Nordseeraum bietet Landschaften von großer Schönheit, über und unter Wasser. Die Dokumentation zeigt Impressionen dieser See aus...

Im Sommer 1980 rufen die Arbeiter der Danziger Leninwerft einen Streik gegen die staatliche Unterdrückung aus. Die zum damaligen Zeitpunkt...

Knapp ein Jahr vor dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs brach eine zweite, genauso tödliche Katastrophe über die Menschheit herein: die Spanische...

Im April 1966 sitzt Altbundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer dem Maler Oskar Kokoschka Modell. Der Künstler nutzt diese Zeit hinter verschlossenen...

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make...

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the...

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is...

Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where...

Norsemen is an epic and humorous drama series set in the Viking Age. The residents of an 8th-century Viking village experience political rivalry,...

A young man arrives at the Grand Hotel, an ideal place in the middle of the wilderness to investigate his sister's disappearance. What he ignores is...

The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.

This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.

Once Upon a Time… Man is a French animated TV series from 1978 directed by Albert Barillé. It is the first in the Once Upon a Time......

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral...

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising...

1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who...

Historian Dan Jones explores the millennium of history behind six of Great Britain's most famous castles: Warwick, Dover, Caernarfon, the Tower of...

This three-episode miniseries chronicles the rise and fall of the Habsburg Empire, one of the most powerful European empires in history. The Habsburg...

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.