Revolutions That Changed History

Destined to fight and die in servitude, a group of rebel gladiators plot their escape; led to freedom by ex-Roman soldier and master of combat, Spartacus, the rebels emerge on Mount Vesuvius, and a hoard of slaves grows into a rebellion.

After the Roman conquest of Britannia, many Celtic tribes must submit to Emperor Claudius; Roman soldiers' mistreatment and humiliation of the living monarch sparks fury, and Celtic Queen Boudica ignites an incendiary campaign for vengeance.

In the wake of the Black Death a labour shortage gives the underclass leverage to demand better wages, but England's involvement in the Hundred Years' War has left the treasury empty and Britain's Barons are sick of paying for it all.

During the Ancien Régime, France was composed of the Clergy, the Nobility, and everyone else; with none of the rights or privileges of the other two, the Third Estate's chance to escape a life of squalor can only come on a tide of change.

After years of fighting arm-in-arm with their British compatriots, American colonists are shocked by stern import duties enacted over the heads of the colonies.

A secret society of Russian military officers with dreams of political revolution set out to overthrow the Romanovs by spreading a lie about one Tsar usurping another.