TV-serien "Borgia" är ett fransk-tysk-tjeckisk historiskt drama skapad av Tom Fontana. Den berättar om familjen Borgias uppgång till makten och den efterföljande dominansen av de påvliga staterna under renässansen.
Året är 1812 och Napoleon har inlett den ödesdigra invasionen av Ryssland. Samtidigt som kriget rasar för fullt på de vidsträckta slagfälten, pågår ett politiskt maktspel i överklassens fina salonger i St Petersburg. Leo Tolstojs världsberömda roman blir i Oscarnominerade regissören Robert Dornhelms miniserie en äventyrlig och romantisk skildring av de förödande Napoleonkrigen.
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Brittania. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome.
The true story of Augustine of Hippo, one of the Catholic Church’s most beloved and well-known Saints.