All Episodes

Part I. Early Christianity. Saint Chrysostom. The Blessings of Death (about 380)

Saint Augustine. On the Lord’s Prayer

Abelard. The Divine Tragedy

St. Bernard. Why Another Crusade? (about 1145)

Part II. The Reformation. Savonarola. I. A Report on His Embassy to the King (1495)

Savonarola. II. After His Excommunication (1498)

Zwingli. On Mercenary Soldiers (about 1530)

Luther. Before the Diet of Worms (1520)

Melanchthon. On the Death of Luther (1546)

Calvin. On Suffering Persecution

Part III. Modern France. Bossuet. On the Death of the Great Condé (1686)

Bourdaloue. On the Passion of Christ

Fenelon. True and False Simplicity

Massillon. Of a Malignant Tongue

Desmoulins. Better to Die than not to Live Free

Mirabeau. I. Necker's Financial Plan (1789)

Mirabeau. II. On Being Accused of Treasonable Relations to the Court (1790)

Barnave. Against Majority Absolutism (1791)

Vergniaud. On the Situation in France (1792)

Danton. I. ''Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare'' (1792)

Danton. II. On Liberty of Worship (1793)

Danton. III. On Taxing the Rich (1793)

Robespierre. I. Against Granting the King a Trial (1792)

Robespierre. II. His Last Speech (1794)

Marat. In his Own Defense (1793)

Cambon. On the Situation in France (1793)

St. Just. Invective Against Danton (1794)

Barère. On the Heroism of the ''Vengeur's'' Sailors (1794)

Napoleon. I. To the Army in Italy (1796)

Napoleon. II. To the Army of Italy Again (1796)

Napoleon. III. Speech to the Directory (1797)

Napoleon. IV. During the Egyptian Campaign (1798)

Napoleon. V. On the Anniversary of Austerlitz (1806)

Napoleon. VI. To his Soldiers at Fontainebleau (1814)

Napoleon. VII. After the Return from Elba (1815)

Carnot. Against Setting up an Emperor (1802)

Lamartine. To a Deputation of Poles (1848)

Hugo. In Defense of his Son (1851)

Gambetta. Education for the Peasantry in France

Baron d'Estournelles de Constant. France and the United States (1902)

Jaurès. In the Debate on Socialism with Clemenceau (1906)

Clemenceau. In the Debate on Socialism with Jaurès (1906)

Part IV. Italy. Mazzini. To the Young Men of Italy (1848)

Garibaldi. To his Soldiers (1860)

Cavour. Rome as the Capital of United Italy (1861)

Part V. Modern Germany, Hungary and Spain. Frederick the Great. I. To his Generals before Invading Silesia (1740)

Frederick the Great. II. To his Generals before the Battle of Leuthen (1757)

Bismarck. The Canossa Speech (1872)

Kossuth. On his Welcome to New York (1851)

Castelar. Plea for a Republic in Spain (1869)

Apponyi. On the Death of Louis Kossuth (1894)