4: The Shogun | Heroes and Villains

1: Napoleon | Heroes and Villains

Drama-documentary starring Tom Burke and Rob Brydon telling how Napoleon Bonaparte rose from being a penniless soldier to create an empire,...

2: Cortes | Heroes and Villains

The Spanish adventurer Hernan Cortes is supposed to have taken the Aztec empire with a few soldiers and 16 horses. Can that be true?

3: Attila the Hun | Heroes and Villains

Exploring the myth of the crude savage Attila. Part genius, part psychopath, Attila is unlike the other Huns. A calculating, ruthless...

4: The Shogun | Heroes and Villains

Drama-documentary about the Samurai general Tokugawa Ieyasu. He overthrew the governing dynasty of Japan and became the Shogun - the supr...

5: Spartacus | Heroes and Villains

Dramatised documentary revealing Spartacus as he really was - a brilliant leader of a guerrilla band, but a flawed and indecisive human be...

6: Richard the Lionheart | Heroes and Villains

Drama-documentary about Richard the Lionheart. Was he the heroic warrior of Robin Hood? Or was he just a thug who looted the H...