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A wandering monk must deliver a holy relic to its rightful place of worship, all the while evading nefarious forces.

After the daily newspaper Alger Républicain was banned from publication in 1955, its editor Henri Alleg went underground. He was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in 1957 by the French army in Algeria.

Dramatization of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt, from the exploration of tombs in the early 1800s, to the unraveling of the Rosetta Stone to translate the ancient language on the tombs, to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

La Violencia documents the lives of indigenous Mayan women of Guatemala. Guatemala is explored from its violent history to its current fragile state through the personal stories of indigenous women and activists, and is narrated by acclaimed actor Aidan Gillen.

It is August 1951 and an entire French village goes crazy. People are screaming in the streets and throwing themselves out of windows. 300 people are affected and 7 end up dead. Wild theories start circulating to explain the tragedy. 60 years later declassified documents from the United States reveal that the CIA conducted experiments on unsuspecting citizens.

Bettany returns with another Top Ten Treasures Countdown, this time peeling away the bandages and unearthing the tales of the lives of 10 embalmed bodies, each with a very different and unique story to tell. From Pharaohs, to criminals, to children to priests, Bettany opens up portal into the incredible stories of people from of all different classes and parts of Ancient Egyptian society, their stories and secrets spanning the width of the planes of the Nile Delta to the depths of the Valley of the Kings. Having remained in bandages untouched for thousands of years, we are fed with never before told stories of gruesome revenge, and journeys beyond life on earth.

Dr Martin Lings, a writer and scholar revered all over the world, performed the Hajj, or pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in 1948. Using unique archive material, he recollects his experiences along with his insight into its historical background. The original beauty and simplicity of the Hajj is brought to the viewer through the sheer presence and eloquence of Lings' narrative.

King Charles III was Prince of Wales for more than 60 years. From the controversy around his Investiture, to his charity work, his love of the countryside and tradition and his keen patronage of the arts, this programme reflects on the effect Wales and the Welsh have had on the new monarch.

Hitler was undoubtedly the cruelest figure of Nazism, but not the only one. This documentary reconstructs the stories of crimes committed by Paul Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Wilhem Goering, up to the Nuremberg war crimes trial that took place between 1945 and 1946.

Bettany Hughes investigates the enduring relationship between warfare and worship, by following the trail of Mars, from Rome and Carthage to the present day.

The famous bust of Nefertiti, queen of ancient Egypt, wife of Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, has been on display in the Neues Museum in Berlin since 1913. But why is it not, as valuable as it is, in its country of origin, where it was discovered in December 1912 by the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt?

The confessions of a man ready to end his life when faced with economic hardship, whose soul is saved by Father Leopoldo Mandic, a little Capuchin brother able to touch the lives of an entire city.

The story of the young Coinneach Odhar, as he was known then, who one day stumbles upon a seeing stone, which gives him the ability to see into the future. Now cursed with second sight, he is left to suffer the knowledge of every detail of his life and death.

The rise of the Roman Empire towards world power is reconstructed with the help of cartographies and re-enactments. It also shows where traces of ancient Rome can still be found today.

A documentary on the life and writings of Saunders Lewis.

When the navigator Christopher Columbus came across the same 'mainland' four times on his four voyages of discovery between 1492 and 1504, he had no idea that he had discovered a new continent from the European perspective and that this would change the way the world was perceived forever.

For more than two centuries, Marie Antoinette fans have wondered if she really had an affair with the Count of Fersen. Secret correspondence exchanged during the Revolution, miraculously found, contains mysterious erasures that remain illegible to this day. Historians have always been convinced that they hid the key to the enigma. Today, a scientific team is preparing to scan these precious documents preserved in the National Archives. The queen's letters will finally reveal her secrets.

Documentary recapping the history of Allanson Street Primary School from the early 1900s to now.

From Runes to Ruins is the first ever documentary film about Anglo-Saxon paganism. All over Britain there are people whose lives are influenced by the largely forgotten culture of the Anglo-Saxon barbarians who founded England. Thomas Rowsell reveals a forgotten aspect of English history that many are oblivious to, by uncovering paganism in runes and ruins.

In 2009 metal-detecting enthusiast Terry Herbert discovered the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure in the UK. Dan Snow travels across the old Kingdom of Mercia to unravel the secrets of the Staffordshire Hoard.

Here from 1935 is Gaumont British's documentary about the Royal Air Force, simply titled "R.A.F." and directed by John Betts. This film looks at the training of new recruits, and includes views of many (now rare) aircraft of the period.

In 1961, when the African National Congress, an organization whose purpose was to fight against the apartheid regime, was threatened by the increasingly repressive policies of the South African government, it resorted to armed struggle and created uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), its paramilitary wing, led by Nelson Mandela.

During the Cold War, while the great powers fight for nuclear supremacy, a uranium mine is opened in Albalá, in the Spanish province of Cáceres, as well as a movie theater, a symbol of the prosperity of the village from then until its closure in 1975.

Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, had a life of commitments: youth among the Capuchins, resistant during the Second World War, then deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle. The creation of Emmaus will mark the beginning of its fight against social inequalities, its appeal launched during the difficult winter of 54 will have a resounding echo in our society. This retrospective retraces the life of Abbé Pierre, archives and testimonies show it on all fronts of the fight against misery and injustice, for the support of the poorly housed, the excluded.

After a harsh winter, the inhabitants of a small Valencian village prepare to celebrate a wedding. An unfortunate accident pits the men and women against each other. The cunning Mayor decides to use this to his own advantage.

Ghosts of the Third Reich documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family's past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals, whose family members were supporters, officers, and elite of the Nazi regime, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors.

Presided over by ingenuity, Teresa introduces the Saint at various points in her life, as a child, as a teenager and once she has entered the convent.

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

The documentary tells the history of the oldest ghetto in Europe and of the Venetian Jewish community. 2016 will be its Quincentennial.The eyes of a Jewish teenager, of Venetian origin, but born and raised in New York, will lead us in this journey. Lorenzo is guided by his Aunt and two young Venetian cousins who offer him the stimulus to enter more and more into a world unknown to him.The Ghetto's atmosphere, places and history are recreated by interviews to scholars, docu-fiction and a modern animation. The history of the Venice ghetto offers us an opportunity to reflect on the story of an immigration and of a slow integration, an example of the enormous wealth that the exchange of diverse cultures can give us.

Set in Calvi dell'Umbria, Italy , the film recounts the massacre of 16 villagers by retreating Nazi troops. The memory resurfaces in the words of a grandmother to her granddaughter, in a tale that interweaves two generations and gives voice to one of the many Nazi-Fascist atrocities, too long forgotten.

A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs.

Farang is an artists' moving image work that traces a semi-fictional journey across Iran.

The Battle of Liaoyang began on August 29, 1904 and continued until September 1 when the Russians were forced to retreat. On September 6 the Japanese occupied the Yentai Mines to the north of Liaoyang. (The History of the Russo-Japanese War by Sydney Tyler published 1905)

1939: France decrees general mobilization. Labeled a degenerate artist, Pablo Picasso takes refuge in Royan, where Maya, his daughter, and Marie-Thérèse Walter, his companion, are staying. He is accompanied by his secretary Jaime Sabartes and also by the captivating Dora Maar. Within this setting of peace and light, surrounded by friends and family, Picasso is soon seduced by this laid-back lifestyle. This apparent tranquility is perhaps only a false pretense... In the privacy of his studio, the artist is visited by monsters, reminding him of the threat of imminent danger. Confronted with dark forces, the artist cannot escape forever and has to face his truth and the truth of the world.

A village in the "Bergisches Land" in the summer of 1943. Anna is worried about her son who is fighting on the Eastern Front. While her husband Werner wants to believe the propaganda of the Nazis, Anna secretly listened to the radio broadcasts of the Allies to figure out the true circumstances of the war. When Werner finds out, a world seems to collapse for him. But that's not the only secret Anna keeps hidden from Werner.

This four-channel video installation was shot inside the abandoned headquarters of the defunct East German secret police—unofficially called Stasi City— a few years after the reunification of Germany. Images of the labyrinth of abandoned corridors, interrogation rooms, and open and closed doors are accompanied by a soundtrack of the clanging, buzzing, and clicking sounds that would have been emitted by surveillance equipment when police occupied the building. Stasi City is an imprint of the haunting memories embedded in architecture.