Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island's young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain peaceful and undisturbed. Or so they have been taught...but the truth is different. The fate of mankind is on the line, and Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile and incomprehensible enemy. At the center of it all, fighting for Humanity's continued existence, is the giant robot Fafner, the dragon that guards this final treasure of mankind.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the corruption of the imperial court was weak, coupled with the invasion of Jin soldiers in the south, and the people's livelihood was difficult. A generation of famous generals Yue Fei was fiercely loyal and led the Yue family army to bravely resist the enemy, breaking through the golden soldiers, and was deeply loved by the people. Qin Yun, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, betrayed the country for glory, colluded with Jin Wushu, the fourth prince of the Jin State, and designed to deal with Yue Fei in order to remove the biggest obstacle to the Jin people's invasion of the Central Plains...
Six long months have passed. The Raalgon Empire has developed a horrible new type of weapon, and Tylor has been charged with the duty of intercepting it as it is being transported. But when all that could go wrong does go wrong, the crew members of the Soyokaze find themselves at the mercy of their enemies. As the hours tick down toward their execution, the crew wonders: has their irresponsible captain misled them? Or is this all a part of some greater strategy?
The history of the tragic events of the October Revolution. The period from 1905 to 1924 was a difficult epoch that influenced the fate of people not only in Russia, but also the whole world in the XX century.
The series chronicles the Arab history of Al-Andalus under the Umayyad dynasty, the fall of Granada and the prosperity of Cordoba during the reign of Muluk Al-Tawaif.
Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian as his successor.
It's about human history, how humans shaped the world we live in. A history through cultures and civilizations - from early Mesopotamia to the industrial revolution.
Documentary series from various european production company’s like BBC, SVT, NRK, DR, ARTE, Covering serveral topics of war, Persons Like Cleopatra, Hitler, George Washington, etc
This drama depicts the in-fighting between women in the palace from the reign of Jungjong to Injong, particularly the power struggle featuring Queen Munjeong and Jung Nan Jung, her sister-in-law, and the way they pulled the strings behind the scenes.
Based on J. Reed's book "Mexico Rising". The first part of the dilogy is devoted to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. These events are shown through the eyes of American journalist John Reed.
A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
The action begins in 1912. The heroes of the painting - neighbors, villagers, Cossacks from the Tatarsky farm of the village of Vyoshenskaya - have lived on this land for centuries, they are connected by kinship, friendship, love, common labor and military service. But this durable and self-sufficient world with its unique way of life, habits and a special system of views and values is collapsing under the onslaught of bloody turmoil and revolution. Don is divided by hatred. The seemingly immutable age-old foundations of Don life - land, farm, family, military duty - are dissolving in the crucible of fratricidal war. The Melekhov, Korshunov, and Astakhov families are involved in the cycle of military and political events.