inquisition

On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba, a mapmaker's daughter, must decide between converting to Christianity and being safe, or staying a Jew and risking everything.

Fugitive Italian monk Giordano Bruno, on the run from the Holy Roman Inquisition in 1583, is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster for Protestant Queen Elizabeth I, to infiltrate the underground Catholic network at Oxford to gather information about a plot to overthrow the queen, but his mission is derailed when a murder occurs just outside his window.

Documents the events leading up to the Spanish Inquisition beginning in 1478 and the events that followed for the next three and a half centuries.

A young girl helps her friend and teacher, the great artist Francisco de Goya, thwart the tyranny of the Spanish Inquisition.

Describes the life and work of the scientist who was persecuted by the Inquisition for his views of the universe.

Examines key issues in the trial of seventeenth-century astronomer Galileo, accused of heresy by the Inquisition for advocating the Copernican, or sun-centered, view of the universe, and looks at the reasons why the trial remains memorable.