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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

The Bible: A Literary Heritage

Bismarck

Bismarck: Germany From Blood and Iron

The Changing World of Charles Dickens

The Changing World of Charles Dickens

Charlemagne

Charlemagne: Holy Barbarian

The Crusades

The Crusades: Saints and Sinners

Elizabeth

Elizabeth: The Queen Who Shaped an Age

The French Revolution

The French Revolution: The Bastille

The French Revolution

The French Revolution: The Terror

Freud

Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man

Galileo

Galileo: The Challenge of Reason

Greeks

Greeks: In Search of Meaning

Marxism

Marxism: The Theory That Split a World

A Matter of Conscience

A Matter of Conscience: Henry VIII and Thomas More

Medieval England

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages: A Wanderer's Guide to Life and Letters

Napoleon

Napoleon: The End of a Dictator

Napoleon

Napoleon: The Making of a Dictator

Newton

Newton: The Mind That Found the Future

Pompeii

Pompeii: Once There Was a City

The Puritan Revolution

The Puritan Revolution: Cromwell and the Rise of Parliamentary Democracy

The Romans

The Romans: Life, Laughter and Law

Romanticism

Romanticism: The Revolt of the Spirit

Shakespeare

Shakespeare: A Mirror to Man