Shaping of the Western World Collection
Outstanding programs that re-create key episodes of human drama and spectacle in the history of the Western World. The 23 programs in this series, all of feature-film caliber and starring well-known actors, were filmed in actual...
In This Series
The Bible: A Literary Heritage
Bismarck: Germany From Blood and Iron
The Changing World of Charles Dickens
Charlemagne: Holy Barbarian
The Crusades: Saints and Sinners
Elizabeth: The Queen Who Shaped an Age
The French Revolution: The Bastille
The French Revolution: The Terror
Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man
Galileo: The Challenge of Reason
Greeks: In Search of Meaning
Marxism: The Theory That Split a World
A Matter of Conscience: Henry VIII and Thomas More
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
The Middle Ages: A Wanderer's Guide to Life and Letters
Napoleon: The End of a Dictator
Napoleon: The Making of a Dictator
Newton: The Mind That Found the Future
Pompeii: Once There Was a City
The Puritan Revolution: Cromwell and the Rise of Parliamentary Democracy
The Romans: Life, Laughter and Law
Romanticism: The Revolt of the Spirit
Shakespeare: A Mirror to Man