잉글랜드 왕의 후계자가 될 생각은 조금도 없는 방탕한 왕자, 할. 그는 왕궁을 등진 채 민중들과 어울려 지내고 있다. 하지만 아버지가 돌아가신 후 장남인 그는 헨리 5세로 즉위하고, 그동안 그토록 피하고 싶었던 삶을 살 수밖에 없다. 왕궁 내 정치와 혼란, 아버지가 남긴 전쟁을 이끌어가야 하는 젊은 왕. 뿐만 아니라 그는 가장 친한 친구이자 멘토였지만 이제는 늙은 알코올중독자가 되어버린 기사 존 폴스타프를 포함해, 과거의 삶과 관련된 감정들로 괴로워한다.
의술이라곤 어쩌다 마을에 들리는 이발사의 신뢰할 수 없는 치료가 전부였던 11세기의 영국 한 마을, 어린 롭은 엄마의 갑작스런 복통으로 도움을 요청하지만 끝내 엄마는 사망하고 맙니다. 자신에게 죽음이 임박했을 때를 아는 능력이 있음을 알게 되었지만, 구해낼 수 없었던 자신을 탓하며 이발사를 쫓아 떠납니다. 그리고 청년이 된 롭은 백내장에 걸린 이발사를 치료한 유태인들에게서 페르시아의 위대한 의사 'Ibn Sina'의 존재를 알게 되고, 다시금 그를 찾아 페르시아의 수도 Isfahan으로 향합니다. 당시 페르시아에는 크리스챤은 들어갈 수 없었기에 롭은 자신을 유태인 Jesse로 속여 입성하게 됩니다. 그 곳에서 운좋게 이븐 시나의 클래스에 들어가게 되고, 사막에서 죽은줄로만 알았던 운명의 여인 레베카와 재회합니다. 당시 페르시아는 모든 문물과 문화에 대해 개방하고 있었기에 다양한 종교가 공존하며, 학문의 자유를 통해 가장 앞선 의술을 가지고 있었던 거죠. 평안한 순간도 잠시, 그리고 이제 곧 그들의 운명을 다시 바꿔놓을 흑사병의 창궐과 셀주크와의 전투가 기다리고 있습니다. ...
레이디 캐서린(일명 '버디')은 여느 훌륭한 10대 여주인공처럼 활기차고 영리하며 모험심이 강하다. 또한 찾아오는 구혼자는 누구든 쳐낼 준비가 돼 있다. 가족은 캐서린을 시집 보내고 싶어 혈안이 돼 있지만, 버디는 상상력, 반항심, 그리고 현대적인 독립성으로 부모님과 충돌한다. 역대 최고로 끔찍한 구혼자가 찾아오자 관계가 시험대에 오른다.
The Two Princes, imprisoned and allegedly murdered in the Bloody Tower within the Tower Of London by Richard III. The story tells how they allegedly came back to haunt the Tower and with guards and inmates starting to die in horrible circumstances, it becomes clear the Two Princes are out for revenge. A chilling ghost story based on the famous mystery.
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.
영국 봉건시대 초기의 왕 에드워드 2세는 총신 가베스턴과의 이루어질 수 없는 사랑으로 인해 왕위를 빼앗기는 치욕을 당한다. 세익스피어와 동시대의 이단적인 극작가 크리스토퍼 말로우의 희곡을 원작으로 14세기와 20세기의 현실을 교차시켜 억압적인 현재를 폭로한 작품.
과거 추방 당한 자들이 1,500년후 왕의 후손들을 찾아내어 복수를 하는 내용의 SF 액션 영화
Roberta is a low-budget movie director dealing with numerous problems on the set of her current production. When she is accidently hit on the head, she is knocked unconscious and dreams of living in Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest.
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.
Shot live from the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, this presentation of the 1980 Broadway revival of the beloved Lerner & Loewe classic follows King Arthur, who founds the kingdom of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table. Their goal: fight for justice and right, but Arthur only sees his ideal crumble when his wife Guenevere falls in love with his favorite knight, Sir Lancelot.
In Medieval England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne so he can claim the crown for himself.
His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid arguments to do so. He would not have failed if he had proved himself to be an energetic king. But Edward II of England (1284-1327) never was a king like Edward I Longshanks, his father, or Edward III, his son, were. And his end is shrouded in myth and mystery.
It's one of the darkest murder mysteries in British history: did Richard III really kill his nephews in order to make himself king? Is he the greatest villain in English history, or the victim of centuries of grotesquely unfair Tudor propaganda? On the eve of Richard's reburial at Leicester Cathedral, this drama documentary assembles a stellar cast of experts, including David Starkey and Philippa Gregory, to examine all the available evidence. As it plays out the possibilities and tests the competing theories, it endeavors to get to the bottom, once and for all, of what really happened to the princes in the Tower. Is this a tale of naked ambition, cold pragmatism and bloody murder?
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King Richard II from recipes created by the king's master chefs. How did this ancient manuscript influence the way people eat today? On her culinary journey through medieval history she reawakens recipes that have lain dormant for centuries and discovers dishes that are still prepared now.
Depicts life in a medieval town from the point of view of a young serf. Explains the influence of trade and the role of the merchant and craft guilds in the rise of towns in Europe