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The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and noted authors, this two-part documentary series brings to vivid life the captivating true stories behind Britain's bloody civil wars.

Glories of Medieval Art: The Cloisters

Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 to 2008, guides viewers through The Cloisters, pointing out Romanesque and Gothic architecture and artwork, beautiful tapestries, and the diverse species in the gardens. He outlines the history of the building and it's many influences and highlights significant works of art in the collection. It was produced in 1989 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Office of Film and Television.

Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.

Fantastický stredovek

Wartburg - Power, Religion, Revolution

Wartburg Castle has towered majestically over the Thuringian Forest for almost a thousand years. The medieval building is a living testimony to Germany's complex history - and is a symbol of freedom, power and culture. This documentary explores its long and eventful history.

Going Medieval

In this two-hour H2 special, historian and weapons expert Mike Loades goes medieval diving deep into the world of the Middle Ages. From the 5th to the 15th centuries, Mike battles the realities vs. the myths of this extraordinary time crusading for the core of real life while delivering fun-filled facts. From living, working and fighting to how to keep a knight's armor shiny using a vigorous rub of sand, vinegar and urine, Going Medieval is an expert account of life during medieval times.

David Macaulay: Cathedral

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.

Passo D'Arme

An Investigation Into The Noseless Saint

A look into the medieval mania around nose loss and other bodily fears, narrated by historian John Chatham who has been researching pilgrimage and power in the 14th Century. Shot and hand developed with Lomokino 35mm.

Areyouwinningson?

A short film that transforms the chat-room of a porn-forum into a techno-feudal court.

Bröderna Höglunds Verkstäder 100 år

In the small rural village of Ilsbo, Sweden, brothers Jonas Gunnar and Fredrik Höglund founded Bröderna Höglunds Verkstäder in 1919. This inspiring documentary tells the century-long story of an epoch-defining world-changing product born from a young boy's fascination with mechanics and engineering—a tale of relentless hard work, unwavering dedication to their community, their company, and a groundbreaking idea. J.G. designed a hydraulic tipping system that harnessed the vehicle's own power to raise a telescopic cylinder beneath the load bed, enabling effortless mechanical dumping of cargo and revolutionizing the transport industry.

La cité médiévale de Rocamadour

Le défi fou de GUÉDELON, construire un CHÂTEAU en AUTONOMIE TOTALE sans PÉTROLE comme au MOYEN ÂGE

L'Âge d'or des châteaux forts

The Ruins of Seyssuel's Castle

A study of ruins of a fortified castle placed in the village of Seyssuel during two days of shooting and understanding of the moving light

Teach Me How to Make a Hat

Tactile animated documentary about the experience of Vika Lobatsevich's mum with making clothes. Using shared stories from multiple members of her Eastern-European family, they explore how craft becomes a subtle love language transcending through generations.

The Forbidden Kingdom

An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself travelling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!

The Name of the Rose

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.