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Operation Market Garden, September 1944 The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where theyre horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons

In 17th century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun

What really happened during Shakespeares Lost Years Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream

The life of the Russian Empress Ekaterina II Catherine the Great, a German born princess who came to Russia as bride for the young Peter III, chosen by his aunt Elisabeth, and who, once she came into power, transformed the Russian

The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition

The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain

They were 12 saboteurs The Nazis killed 11 of them This is the true story of the one that got away

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

After declassified FBI files about Hitler have been released, a group of specialists work together to try and find the truth of Hitlers supposed death Did he really die in the bunker

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine

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

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincolns assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux K

Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to take up arms against the invaders, leading

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

The real life of one of Americas foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast

Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman

An account of the gangster Mahindra Dolas and his gang, which terrorized Mumbai City, and a massive war between Mumbai Police and gangs during 16 November 1991

It is the story of the all black Twenty Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess

Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians

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

Three different swordsmen a swordsman who is going blind, the best swordsman in Joseon Dynasty, and the best swordsman in Qing Dynasty who aspires to be the best even in the Joseon Dynasty meet each other for their own reasons

An examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U S soldiers and detainees at Iraqs Abu Ghraib prison in the fall of 2003

An epic based on the myth of Jumong, founder of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo in 37 B C

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

Miguel makes the journey that his grandfather, locked up by his own family, cannot his mission is to go to a funeral and leave an army jacket on the grave of his grandfathers friend Accompanied by Lola and Guillermo, Miguel lea

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

Explore the myths and realities of both natural and unnatural threats, from viruses to volcanoes, asteroids to authoritarianism, and climate change to chemical warfare

Henry Rollins discusses different subjects throughout history

An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye

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

In the world of evil and deranged serial killers, there is no equal Meet the Dark Lord of a murder castle who killed roughly 200 people in a self made house of horrors who may have also been the notorious Jack the Ripper

The controversial, sexy, surreal story of a messenger and his journey and encounters with many historical events and people like Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortes and Emiliano Zapata as a beautiful woman