16th Century Movies

A television production of the novel by French writer Victor Hugo. The story of the Pope's daughter Lucrezia Borgia, who was known for her cruelty...

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...

Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden is the...

The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune...

A violent and gritty retelling of the life of Grainne Uaile, the 16th century Pirate Queen from Ireland. She was a fighter, a pirate and a tough...

As a nun, Katharina von Bora lives the life destined for her until she comes into contact with a completely new world of thought in the early 20s...

A group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ago, including the use of period clothes, recipes...

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's...

An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.

One of the most famous Bible stories of all time retold against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the New World, the birth of...

Dubrovnik, February 1551. After a performance of his latest masterpiece Uncle Maroje recieves a strongly negative reaction from Dubrovnik's elite,...

The TV fairy tale based on a book of tales and legends from Prague's Old Town. Its author, writer E. Petiška, set the story at the end of the...

In 1519, glory-hungry soldier Hernán Cortés leads an expedition to the Yucatán. After landing on the coast of what is now...

On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who rescues him from danger. The devil's intentions...

Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever to hold power in England. A chief minister who...

The story is based on the life of Pothuluri Veerabrahmam (N. T. Rama Rao), a well-known saint and astrologer of the 17th century. A brief life of...