Historic
Part 1 : The Jesuits Conquering the Forbidden City. Matteo Ricci, a young Jesuit would be the first European to enter China at the end of the 16th century. Trained in geometry and algebra, he would soon discover that cosmology and the art of measuring time was at the very centre of Chinese civilization and imperial authority, the Emperor’s Mandate of Heaven.
Part 2 : The Trial of the Jesuits. Matteo Ricci, a young Jesuit would be the first European to enter China at the end of the 16th century. Trained in geometry and algebra, he would soon discover that cosmology and the art of measuring time was at the very centre of Chinese civilization and imperial authority, the Emperor’s Mandate of Heaven.
On the walls of their caves, 17,000 years ago, the men of Cro-Magnon traced the first history of the sky and its stars. If Lascaux, the prehistoric Sistine Chapel, was first and foremost a temple dedicated to the celestial constellations. Crazy? Yet this is the demonstration that Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez, an ethnologist and astronomer, attempts. Between a police investigation and an astronomical tale, this film plunges us into the mists of time.
Follow along as Jeremy and Barry visit Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, and go to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to see where the baby Jesus would have been dedicated.
Jeremy and Barry travel to Nazareth to see what life might have been like for Jesus growing up. Go inside a replica Jewish synagogue and see a carpenter practice his trade using 1st century tools.
Jeremy and Barry visit the wilderness of Judea and experience the unforgiving elements of the area Jesus would have been during His temptations.
Jeremy and Barry visit the city of Capernaum where Jesus lived during His ministry. Come along as they take a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee and get a taste of what fishing would have been like in the 1st century.
Jeremy & Barry visit Jerusalem and Caesarea Philippi to answer the allimportant question "Who is Jesus?"
Follow along as Jeremy and Barry visit places surrounding the miracles of Jesus and go inside a 1stcentury tomb believed to be the location where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.
Visit some of the places Jesus taught some of His most powerful lessons. Visit the Cove of the Sower and the site where Jesus had a conversation with a Samaritan woman while resting by a well
Step back into the 1stcentury and experience a Passover meal similar to what Jesus would have eaten with His disciples on the night of His betrayal.
Visit the places where Jesus was put on trial. Go inside the house of Caiaphas the high priest, the location where Peter denied his master. Explore rarely seen ruins inside the excavation of Herod’s palace, the likely place of Jesus’ trial before Pilate.
Go inside the Church of the Holy Sepluchre and see first-hand the locations traditionally believed to be where Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the grave. See where Jesus appeared to His disciples after His resurrection.
Follow along as Jeremy and Barry visit Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, and go to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to see where the baby Jesus would have been dedicated.
The programme will provide a rich mythological and historical background to this unique breed of horse. As well as covering the Landsmot festival, the film will trace the ancestry of the breed, which has been kept pure by the banning of all imported horses.
In the harsh winter of 324, a dazzling cavalry officer from the Roman Imperial Guard stop his horse in front of a nearly naked man, then take from his shoulders his immense white cloak, made from two pieces of fabric, one lined with sheepskin, and separate the two parts with his sword to make the unfortunate wretch warm. His charitable gesture contains all the force of this emblematic character from the dawn of Western Christianity.
Archaeologists unlock the mystery of wooden posts arranged in large circles all over Central Europe.
The Great Lakes are among the most mythical landscapes of North America: endless water, endless forest. Many Native American peoples lived there; later European settlers followed on the heels of the white hunters and trappers. They hunted in the forests and transported their furs and other goods across the water to the south where a small river situated at the southern tip of Lake Michigan flows onward towards the southern states.
This documentary deals with the Moche culture, which developed on the northern coast of Peru, between 100 BC and 600 AC. It is a fairly unknown culture that disappeared after reaching its peak. A Great Lord who governed and was buried with great honors, so that his message would endure in time, and a man, an archaeologist named Walter Alva, who rescued him from his tomb to fulfill his plan of the past. Today, everyone has heard of the Moches, thanks to the last discoveries.
The Lady of Cao is the first female ruler of pre-Columbian Peru to be discovered. She is believed to have governed in the Chicama valley, very close to the city of Trujillo, about 1700 years ago. The discovery of her tomb in 2006 was a major breakthrough in all previous theories about the Moche civilization. Through historical recreations, we will learn how the Moche society of the area was like and the importance of this mysterious tattooed mommy in her times.
