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A group of Jewish American war pilots smuggle planes out of the U S and fly for Israel in its War of Independence

This is a lengthy exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history, told through dramatised conversations between the main participants, particularly Cosimo de Medici and Brunelleschi Among its the

Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a 19th century fiery social reformer and his unswerving fight against the dominant caste oppressions by the upper classes

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village

The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist

Jumping continents and crossing cultures, Planet B Boy looks at the history of breakdancing and its vibrant resurgence in urban cultures around the world

North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s A George and Serena Pemberton, love struck newly weds, begin to build a timber empire Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man overseeing loggers, hunting rattle snakes, even saving a manA s l

A fallen warrior rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master

The temporary physical life of the Biblical Savior, Jesus Christ

The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup detat in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden

Nine part series telling the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day, for the first time on a global scale It is now nearly half a century since Kenneth Clarks series Civilisation thrilled audiences with its

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex lovers wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials

Following the assassination of President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husbands historic legacy

As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever

Broadcast journalist Edward R Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged southern Belle in the ante bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers her mother was black

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorkes Drift

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation

A queen who lost three kingdoms A wife who lost three husbands A woman who lost her head

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall

Widower Thomas Jefferson 3rd US president 1801 09 lives in Paris 1785 90 with his daughter He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France He has an alleged affair with her resulting in kids

During the World War 2, a young lads called up and, with increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D day

The story of one of the most famous men in history You might think you know him the heroic and successful discoverer of America Now think again

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built

After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom

True story set in the Roaring Twenties Sydney about the rise of Berlei, a popular Australian brand of womens lingerie, famous for its bras and girdles

In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Gloria do Ribatejo, Joao Vidal will take on several high risk espionage missions that could change the course of Portuguese and world history

Pasolinis artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucers most erotic tales

The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld