The war against the Germans won, Emperor Aurelius chooses the victorious General Maximus as his successor to the Roman empire. Commodus, Aurelius' heir, is jealous of this and enslaves Maximus to the gladiatorial arenas.

The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption.

Jonathan searches for his mother among the Roman slaves while his friends try to talk Emperor Titus into freeing him. Jonathan and Susannah reunite and make plans to escape together. Will they make it home to Ostia? And what of the third assassin?

As the second half to this episode begins, Jonathan and Nubia are inside the gladiator training compound. Jonathan is reluctantly training to fight as a gladiator, while Nubia tries to make contact with her brother. Before long, the children discover the real purpose of the event-an assassination attempt on Domitian, the emperor's brother. Can they warn him in time?

Vincent van Gogh is perhaps the most mythologized artist in the history of art and his tragic life is ingrained in the popular imagination. Active as an artist for only ten years he completed 1250 paintings, before succumbing to mental illness and taking his own life in July of 1890. Van Gogh was a deeply spiritual man and began painting after witnessing the desperate poverty of the agricultural communities of Holland and Belgium. He developed a highly...