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Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th Century His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end Two women will have a lasting impact on him hi

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery

As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work He and his brother both fall for Mary G

A movie about the corruption in all levels of society A baby is born from a supposed to be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves

The story of Joseons tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance

A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history

During the fourteenth century when the Hundred Years War between France and England ends with the English occupation of French Aquitainia, rebel French Knights vow to oust Edward, Prince of Wales, ruler of Aquitaine

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished

A humorous travelogue of the French Riviera

An extraordinary real life story set in 1919 , BORN A KING is a coming of age story about Faisal, a 14 year old teenage Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abdul Aziz, on a

Sold into slavery, delivered from a terrible storm at sea, a troubled young man finds amazing grace in the darkest moments and becomes driving force behind the move to abolish the slave trade

They are a rogues gallery of the most notorious despots in recent history From Hitler to Saddam Hussein, from Stalin to Kim Jong il of North Korea, from Chairman Mao to Colonel Gaddafi these are the psychopaths, the heartless ideolo

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine

A series of documentaries exploring modern efforts to solve historic mysteries

In the first of the Angelique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer

In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army

Suicide, murder or something else This docuseries examines chilling truths and theories around the deaths of 11 members of a Delhi family

In this award winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed looks at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli Palestinian conflict

Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co exist with the Sodomites, a disastrous decision

After the destruction of the Second Temple, nine hundred Jewish zealots hold out against a five thousand man Roman legion on the mountaintop fortress of Masada

The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Aruns p

A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him

A descent into Eastern Europes haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of mans place in nature

When an ex prisoner of the Great War returns home and finds his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial killer to justice

Henry Rollins discusses different subjects throughout history

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman she starts trying to maintain her public

The story of how one of the worlds most popular video games found its way to players around the globe Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the mas

In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain

Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill fated love

DArtagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three musketeers of the King

Explores the rise of fashion designer Christian Dior, as he dethrones Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his iconic imprint of beauty and influence

After a Union soldier flees from battle, rescue comes from a free black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the g

In Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population

In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians