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This film describes the events surrounding a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge reservation in S Dakota where two FBI agents were killed

Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war

The Nazi evolution from murderous anti semitism into organised death camps, as documented in this sober piece of historical excavation from Holocaust specialist James Bulgin, is truly shocking in its specificity An ad hoc interpr

The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christs life told in an anachronistic manner

Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teachers death Huo Yuanjia in Japanese occupied Shanghai A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burmas democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris

Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague

With The Walking Dead franchise at the peak of its popularity, Documentarians Cris Macht and Ian Vacek explore and examine why humanity is obsessed with the zombie apocalypse Cris and Ian interview fans that have been there since

Filmed interviews with the survivors of the Berlin Bunker in which Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels family killed themselves in the final days of World War II The interviews were

April 1940 Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace Ultimately, the decision on Norways future will rest with the Kin

Russia, 1917, WWI This is the story of the 1st Russian Womens Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917

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

During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabbs beloved mare Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance,

Drama about the friendship between an Oxford educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn of the century Savannah

A preview for the HBO documentary The Loving Story

During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods

Inspired by the scriptural tale Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem

A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end

Born poor in St Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success

In this drama inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, an anarchist targets one of the worlds biggest banks with an ingenious counterfeiting operation

At the end of the 1930s, Hitler ordered the construction of a special train that could transport him around safely and appease his growing paranoia A veritable fortress on rails, this armored fifteen carriage convoy served as his mo

A tragic love story set against the lynching of 18 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, in 1871 Filmed in Utah

Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center

Young Tom Hall Art Parkinson and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941

An examination of the conventional bombs and missiles that are reshaping modern warfare Also discussed are the counters to these weapons

In San Francisco in 1850, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victorias rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each others way of life

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens

In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaohs court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein

A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis