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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

Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegels painting The theme of Christs suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Arc

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D C from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D Day They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasi

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity

World War II American Army Medic Desmond T Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging In this heart felt story of love and spirituality we follow the lives of Melody and her mother Sara Beth Ellis as they struggle on their farm during the war Melody has created a fantasy world around her as

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966

Proposes a minute by minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father in law

Two Britons, Hengist and Horsa, are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Caesa

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government

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

The story of Milada Horakova, democratic pre WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husbands incarceration

An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s

This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history

The story of Amos Ozs youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel The film details the young mans relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive

The story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter culture

The life of one of the USAs Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nations first 50 years

The 1680s bring a new king, Restoration and more tyranny In Massachusetts, a robbers son falls for an anti monarchist In England, young lady falls for an outlaw

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

Photographer Jim Marshall captures the heights of the Rock and Roll music era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the 60s

Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth IIs reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century

The English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years War with France while Europe deals with the outbreak of the Black Death

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

In the early 1960s, Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari went to war on the battlefield of Le MansTM This epic battle saw drivers lose their lives, family dynasties nearly collapse and the development of a new race car that changed raci

The story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub

In 1994, journalist Enza Massa visited the Italian National Library in Rome While she was researching old texts, Enza discovered a book titled NOSTRADAMUS VATICANICA CODE, dating back to

Based on a true historic figure during Ayothaya Era, the film depicts the life of Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Thailand and became the governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat province in souther

Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name, the story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queens daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII

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