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In 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a code clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, bolted for the freedom of the West and took many secret documents with him that helped lay waste to a good portion of Russias Western Hemisphere spy system His h

Hammerfest Norway is the northernmost city in the world A tough place at the Arctic Circle, where in winter the sun doesnt rise and during the summer it doesnt set for months A place

Two mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution

The story of General Romeo Dallaires frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors

Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for Indias freedom from England

A three part story of Norways worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norways political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre revolutionary era

A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson

The history of The Beatles and their influence on everything from music, art, and culture to fashion and politics

The 30th of March, 1981, the delusional John Hinckley Jr tries to kill president Ronald Reagan His life hangs on a thin thread at the hospital, while the Soviet Union is ready to invade a

As America prepares to enter WW2, Hungarian film director Michael Curtiz grapples with political intervention and a dysfunctional relationship with his estranged daughter amid the troubled production of Casablanca in 1942

Defiant young activists take the womens suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening

DArtagnan and his fellow Musketeers plot to replace the ineffectual Louis XIV of France with his secretly imprisoned twin brother Phillipe, who is the firstborn and rightful King

The Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known Its armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia

In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolandas initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station They were, for all intents and purposes, stranded in Tacloba

Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career

Charting the rise of the 1990s Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, one of the most notable dynasties in sports history

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

In the summer of 1944, the Finnish Forces must defend Finland from the invading Soviet Red Army

Based on the novel by Pulitzer winner Annie Proulx, BARKSKINS follows a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization late 1600s New Fran

After an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden near a town in the Misiones province named after the 19th century politician Leandro N Alem, he persuades the producers to change the project, as a po

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asuncion, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires

Sir Walter Raleigh Richard Todd overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I Bette Davis in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World

Recounts the true life, previously secret, back channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization

In league with the Saxon invaders, Edmund of Cornwall plans to slay King Arthur, marry his daughter and usurp the throne of England but wizard Merlin and outlaw Robert Marshall stand in the way

Docudrama about the life of St Francis of Assisi

In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War

During the power struggle between Caesar and Crassus, a Roman centurion, who is the lost son of Spartacus, is dispatched to Crassus camp to observe his movements and keep Caesar informed

From fashion to pop culture, the series examines how through decades Americas style and iconic moments reflected the countrys political and social climate

Set during the reign of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the film depicts the story of Hira, a simple village woman When the gates of Raigad fort shut before she can leave, Hira dares to climb down a cliff in the dead of the night to ge

The untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their journeys from the late 1930s to the present day

Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express and fight Indians and California Separatists who seek to destroy it

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles