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In the summer of 1866, Jacob Ballard, a former Union soldier and spy, is dispatched by the War Department in Washington City to infiltrate the isolated North Carolina mountain community where he was born and find a serial killer responsible for the deaths of Union veterans. Based on true events, That Bright Land is the story of a violent and fragile nation in the wake of the Civil War and a man who must exorcise his own savage demons while tracking down another.

Croatia, 1351. Daring knight Gerard Fox and his adventurous wife Willa, fresh from a dangerous quest across Italy and Greece, soon find themselves embroiled in a new intrigue as they sail toward the walled city of Dubrovnik. Having inadvertently hindered a rescue mission, Fox and Willa make amends by helping a desperate Croatian couple forced into a terrible dilemma: either they betray their hometown to a treacherous nobleman and the brutal warlord he serves, or their abducted child will be murdered.

Imprisoned in Damascus, Dragonetz suffers the mind games inflicted by his anonymous enemies as he is forced to remember the traumatic events of the crusade two years earlier. His military prowess is as valuable and dangerous to the balance of power as the priceless Torah he has to deliver to Jerusalem, and the key players want Dragonetz riding with them—or dead. Instead of remaining safely at home, Estela is desperate to rescue Dragonetz at all costs. She sets out for the Holy Land, never realizing that the person she thinks will be her knight's savior might actually be his doom.

Aus der Reihe KopfKino in Spielfilmlänge: Zwei Abenteuer-Erzählungen aus dem römischen Kaiserreich: 39 n. Chr.: Der junge Botenreiter Aulus Marcius Celer ist frisch verliebt in die schöne Valeria; zugleich träumt er davon, im Dienste des Kaisers Caligula Karriere zu machen. Als der Herrscher für ein nie dagewesenes Spektakel einen furchtlosen Reiter benötigt, sieht Aulus seine Chance gekommen. Er ahnt nicht, dass gerade die Erfüllung dieses Auftrages sein Todesurteil bedeutet.