Em 859 d.C. a China passava por problemas políticos graves, a população estava cada vez mais descontente com a dinastia Tang e vários grupos revolucionários começavam a aparecer. Os oficiais do governo Jim e Leo armam um plano ousado para chegar ao líder do Clã das Adagas Voadoras, o grupo que mais ameaça a estabilidade do governo.
O jovem Brendan vive em uma vila medieval remota sob o cerco das invasões bárbaras, mas uma nova vida de aventuras surge quando um mestre iluminador chega de terras estrangeiras carregando um livro antigo inacabado e repleto de sabedoria secreta e poderes. Para ajudar a completar o livro mágico, Brendan tem que superar seus medos mais profundos em uma busca perigosa que o leva para a floresta encantada onde criaturas míticas se escondem. É aqui que ele encontra a fada Aisling, uma misteriosa jovem mulher-lobo, que o ajuda ao longo do caminho.
Einar e Eric são meio-irmãos, um é o príncipe e herdeiro do trono inglês; o outro é o filho bastardo de um selvagem viking. Até que em um ataque surpresa, os Vikings sequestram a princesa Morgana, o que faz Einar e Eric tentarem recuperá-la.
No século 9, uma mulher disfarçada de homem atinge o topo da hierarquia no Vaticano.
O jovem guerreiro Steiner é enviado por seu pai, o Rei, para buscar seu irmão que desapareceu do reino há muitos anos. A viagem épica de Steiner, cheia de hostilidade, revela um digno sucessor do trono.
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English Christians to fight for their country. Alfred soundly defeats the Danes and becomes a hero. But now, although Alfred still longs for the priesthood, he is torn between his passion for God and his lust for blood.
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms.
Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American businessmen. After being sent to England as a child by her Scottish father, Ka'iulani returns to Hawaii and becomes a political activist who fights to retain her throne, even though she must leave her English paramour.
The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her idols to Israel angers God, who wreaks vengeance on Israel.
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.