In the Holy Land today, dozens of specialized archaeologists and their teams sift through the sands of history. They seek to unlock the mysteries of vanished civilizations and their people. This program shows some of the greatest archaeologists in history, from the eccentric Sir William Flinders Petrie to the husband-and-wife team of Eric and Carol Meyers.

Drama about Britain's crisis in the Sudan and the siege at Khartoum in 1883, with Heston as the British general Gordon vs. Olivier's Arab rebel Mahdi.

The first of a series of films set in medieval Japan about Ichi, a blind masseur who lives by the Yakuza code and uses his deadly cane sword against his enemies.

Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe joins the Royal Air Force during World War II, leaving his new love, Evelyn and Danny behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe.

During the spread of The Black Death in 14th century Italy, ten young people flee to the countryside and spend their time there telling each other stories.

Dramatizes the first two voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas and the effects of European contact on the indigenous people.

When Benjamin Steed and his family move to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help, Joseph Smith, turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution.

A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

Julius Caesar is one of the central figures in Roman history. Rapid promotions from a humble civil servant put him in command of the mighty Roman Legions which completed the conquests of Gaul and Britain, and established him as a great but bloodthirsty general. However, the politically ambitious Caesar made many enemies and he was assassinated in the Senate House on March 15th, 44 B.C.

Around 5,000 years ago, a group of Stone Age farmers began work on the most astonishing structure in Neolithic Europe. The task would take them one and a half millennia to complete. What prompted them to embark on such a colossal project, without the wheel and with only primitive stone tools? How did they move and raise the gigantic blokds that make up Stonehenge's celebrated circle? And what do the alignments of the stones, which track the Sun and...