A continuing account of the interrogations, torture and torment, and executions of "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition ...

Forty years after Alexander's death, the elderly Ptolemy, one of Macedon's closest companions who became governor of Egypt after his death, decides to tell and record the story of the great commander's victories. For eight years the army of Alexander the Great moved to the East, to the shores of the world Ocean. Having conquered Western and Central Asia, Macedonian was the first to set foot on the mysterious and mysterious land of ancient India. He dreamed about it in his childhood, listening to the myths of Troy, the exploits of Hercules and Achilles....

Against the backdrop of the fierce battles of the Boshin War, a group of samurai and criminals find themselves involved in a desperate defense of a fortress. Their fates are intertwined with the interests of the Shibata clan, the Tokugawa shogunate, and the new government army led by Satsuma and Toshio. Doomed to die, these warriors enter their final battle, where honor, betrayal, and the struggle for survival weave together into a single tragic story.

The 1950s. Somewhere in Mexico, expatriate William Lee spends his days indulging in drunkenness and debauchery. One day, his attention is caught by a young American named Eugene Allerton.

France, 12th century. Belian, a young blacksmith, is forced to flee his homeland. He joins a group of crusaders led by his father. In one of the battles he is severely wounded and before his death he ordains his son a knight.

1879. The civil war has ended in the United States. Sheriff Earp gives up his job to start a new life with his family. Meanwhile, a silver deposit is found in Tombstone, and a silver rush begins in the town. Earp and his friend, Doc Holliday, are sent to Tombstone, along with a brutal gang of killers.

In the 1900s in Harbin, fighters for the freedom of Korea from Japanese occupation prepare an assassination attempt on a high-ranking collaborator.

1183. During the Christmas festivities, the aging King Henry II of England must name an heir. The event is attended by the king's wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, who spent ten years in prison for her part in a plot against the monarch, the king's mistress, the vain princess Alais, her brother, King Philip II Augustus of France, and Henry II's three sons, Richard the Lionheart, Geoffrey and John. All members of the family hate each other. They have only one thing in common - an exorbitant thirst for power and willingness to commit any treachery for its sake.

Chicago, 1968. Caught stealing a car with a fake FBI ID, criminal William O'Neil agrees to a deal with the feds. He infiltrates a branch of the radical Black Panthers organization and gains the trust of its leader Fred Hampton just as he begins to unite local ethnic organizations into the Rainbow Coalition.

Department of Homeland Security operative Tim Ballard is disillusioned with the system - for years he has been tracking down and catching pedophiles, but has not rescued a single child from the clutches of slave traffickers. Tim gains the trust of a recently caught child porn distributor, convinces him that he is "one of his own", and an eight-year-old boy is brought to him from Mexico. Little Miguel becomes the first released of the many children sold into sexual slavery in Latin America, and Tim decides to find his little sister by all means.