Aventura èpica ambientada en la Florència del segle XIV, moment en el que la ciutat es va veure assolada per la Pesta Negra. En ella habita Lorenzo de Lamberti, un jove innocent i amant de les aventures, que es veu atrapat pel ric Gerbino de la Ratta. L'assassinat passa per ser un dels recursos habituals d'en Gerbino, i com que Lorenzo esdevé un dels seus objectius prioritaris, aquest es veu obligat a fugir a un convent proper. Pampinea Anastagi és filla única d'una rica i respectada família florentina. A la mort dels seus pares a causa de la pesta, Gerbino de la Ratta amenaça a la jove amb confiscar els seus béns per pagar els deutes que va contreure el seu pare, tret que accepti casar-se amb ell. Pampinea abandona Florència i s'embarca en una sèrie d'aventures que li porten a retirar-se a un convent on coneixerà al jove Lorenzo.
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Suècia, mitjans del segle XIV. La Peste Negra assola Europa. Després de deu anys d'inútils combats a les Croades, el cavaller suec Antonius Blovk i el seu lleial escuder tornen de Terra Santa. Blovk és un home turmentat i ple de dubtes. Pel camí es troba amb la Mort que ho reclama. Aleshores ell li proposa jugar una partida d'escacs, amb l'esperança d'obtenir d'Ella respostes a les grans qüestions de la vida: la mort i l'existència de Déu.
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
Rob J. Col·le un nen orfe de nou anys, és adoptat per un barber que li ensenya l'ofici. Durant anys recorren Anglaterra muntant espectacles per atreure al públic, fins que el seu pare adoptiu també mor. Rob seguirà en solitari i coneixerà a Benjamin Merlin, un metge jueu al que aviat admirarà i qui li descobrirà al seu mentor, el científic persa Ibn Sina. En Rob, determinat a convertir-se en un gran metge, iniciarà un emocionant viatge cap a Pèrsia, on es farà passar per jueu per poder estudiar en una escola que no admet cristians.
It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.
It began much like the common cold. Yet within a day fever took over black swellings the size of baseballs appeared on the neck and finally a highly contagious bloody cough quickly sealed the victim's fate. During the worst biological disaster in the history of mankind the so-called black death released an indiscriminate fury which shook the very foundations of human order. Religious hysteria began to break out and in desperation frenzied masses scrambled to find a scapegoat. When all was said and done nearly one-third of Europe's population had been completely wiped out and devastated survivors were left to contend with a world forever changed both socially and economically. In this feature-length special THE HISTORY CHANNEL-® investigates the origins of this devastating moment in human history and explores the many questions surrounding the terrifying possibility of a modern-day biological threat.
After massive protests followed the police shooting of a black man in 2016, the city of Charlotte took the unprecedented move of electing a majority-minority leadership. As they go into their second term, the new leadership's attempt at making their community more equitable for its black and brown community is coming up against 150 years of deep segregation and continued police shootings.