Ancient Assassins - Season 2

Ancient Assassins - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes10
DatesOkt. 8, 2016 - Dez. 3, 2016
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Vlad's Impalers
Season 2Episode 160 min

Vlad's Impalers

The Season 2 premiere focuses on Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes, a ruthless 15th-century Romanian prince, and the legends of brutal mass murder against his enemies and his own people. Tepes was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula."

Okt. 8, 2016
Alexander the Great's Spidermen
Season 2Episode 260 min

Alexander the Great's Spidermen

In 327 BC, Alexander the Great confronts a rebel warlord in an impregnable mountain stronghold called Sogdian Rock. He dispatches 300 hand-picked warriors to scale the sheer rock face, at night, without being detected. It's a brutal test of climbing skill and raw courage. The warlord is Oxyartes of Bactria, whose daughter Roxana later marries Alexander the Great.

Okt. 15, 2016
Beautiful Samurai
Season 2Episode 360 min

Beautiful Samurai

In Twelfth-Century Japan one samurai humiliates all the others – a woman. As lethal as she was lovely, Tomoe Gozen defeated the finest swordsmen, battled tyranny and innovated on the battlefield.

Okt. 22, 2016
Rome's Navy Seals
Season 2Episode 460 min

Rome's Navy Seals

Batavians, an amphibious Roman unit, lead the invasion of ancient Britain in 43 AD in a desperate mission deep in enemy territory that may hand the emperor an unlikely victory.

Okt. 29, 2016
The Real Braveheart
Season 2Episode 560 min

The Real Braveheart

English King Edward I invades Scotland in 1296 and only William Wallace is prepared to stand in his way as he grows from outlaw to army general.

Nov. 5, 2016
Viking Apocalypse
Season 2Episode 660 min

Viking Apocalypse

Backed with overwhelming force, Pagan Vikings wrestle King Alfred for control of 9th century England.

Nov. 12, 2016
Kung Fu Nun
Season 2Episode 760 min

Kung Fu Nun

In 1644 China, Ng Mui escapes from Beijing as the Manchus conquer the Ming dynasty capital. Taking refuge in a Shaolin monastery, she learns their Kung Fu and develops a new form of the martial art, Wing Chun.

Nov. 19, 2016
The Pope's Bodyguards
Season 2Episode 860 min

The Pope's Bodyguards

The Swiss Guard, founded January 22, 1506, is the elite bodyguard for the Pope. It protected Pope Clement VII on May 6, 1527 during the Sack of Rome by 20,000 German and Spanish mercenaries commanded by the Duc de Bourbon. When the Habsburg Emperor was unable to pay this army, the mercenaries' contract allowed for looting. Bourbn decided to attack Rome, full of riches and almost defenseless. The Swiss Guard consisted of 189 men, lead by their Captain, Kaspar Roist. The unit lost 142 men including Roist while killing 900 mercenaries. The remaining Swiss Guard evacuated Pope Clement VII to Castel Sant' Angelo using the "Passetto", a secret corridor constructed under Pope Alexander VI along the top of a wall between the Vatican and the Castel.

Nov. 26, 2016
Sacred Band of Thebes
Season 2Episode 960 min

Sacred Band of Thebes

The Battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C. pits the ancient Greek superpower of Sparta against Thebes, with the decisive blow enabled by the Sacred Band of Thebes ending Spartan dominance. Formed as a branch of the Theban army, the Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite fighting force consisting of 150 pairs of gay lovers.

Dez. 3, 2016
Medieval Mercenaries
Season 2Episode 1060 min

Medieval Mercenaries

Leaving the Hundred Years War, English mercenary Sir John Hawkwood makes a name for himself in 14th-century Italy by serving a variety of sponsors, including Pope Gregory XI in the War of the Eight Saints. This medieval English knight with his army, the White Company, becomes the scourge of Italy, often without striking a single blow. 

Dez. 3, 2016

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