The film is set in Tuscany during the Black Death. As in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance and swordplay. There are randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.
The Seventh Seal - Det sjunde inseglet (1957) lấy bối cảnh thời Trung cổ trong khung cảnh châu Âu lúc đó đang bị đại dịch hoành hành. Bộ phim xoay quanh câu chuyện của chàng hiệp sĩ người Thụy Điển Antonius Block, trở về sau cuộc Thập tự chinh, người đã được thần Chết viếng thăm và cho phép chơi một ván cờ với thần để giành lấy mạng sống của mình. Block là người hiểu lý lẽ, chàng biết rõ chàng gần như không có cơ hội chiến thắng. Tất cả những gì chàng muốn là có thêm thời gian trì hoãn. Một sự trì hoãn mong manh khỏi một cái tất yếu, đồng thời chàng hy vọng cuộc đánh cờ với vị thần quyền năng sẽ giúp chàng giải đáp những câu hỏi về đức tin, về cái chết, về sự cô độc của con người trong thế giới...
Nước Anh năm 1021. Rob Cole một chàng trai nghèo khổ, thề sẽ trở thành thầy thuốc và chiến thắng bệnh tật và cái chết. Anh phải trải qua con đường gian khó để tìm kiếm kiến thức bị bao vây bởi vô số thử thách và hy sinh, dẫn anh đến Isfahan xa xôi ở Ba Tư, nơi anh gặp Ibn Sina người chữa bệnh vĩ đại nhất trong thời đại của mình.
In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.
It began much like the common cold. Yet within a day fever took over black swellings the size of baseballs appeared on the neck and finally a highly contagious bloody cough quickly sealed the victim's fate. During the worst biological disaster in the history of mankind the so-called black death released an indiscriminate fury which shook the very foundations of human order. Religious hysteria began to break out and in desperation frenzied masses scrambled to find a scapegoat. When all was said and done nearly one-third of Europe's population had been completely wiped out and devastated survivors were left to contend with a world forever changed both socially and economically. In this feature-length special THE HISTORY CHANNEL-® investigates the origins of this devastating moment in human history and explores the many questions surrounding the terrifying possibility of a modern-day biological threat.
After massive protests followed the police shooting of a black man in 2016, the city of Charlotte took the unprecedented move of electing a majority-minority leadership. As they go into their second term, the new leadership's attempt at making their community more equitable for its black and brown community is coming up against 150 years of deep segregation and continued police shootings.