Robert the Bruce rose from a noble background tangled in shifting loyalties to become Scotland’s unifying monarch in the early 14th century.

He was a real person with a profound personal journey—kidnapped in youth, spiritually reborn in hardship, and ultimately driven by compassion to return to the land that once imprisoned him.

Leonidas of Sparta is a name that echoes through the centuries, with his famous last stand at Thermopylae, his final act of heroism altered the course of history.