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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 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

In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa

Late 1800s Foshan, Guangdong Wong Fei HungJet Li trains men in martial arts to help defend against foreign powers already holding Hong Kong and Macau He looks after cute 13th Aunt, whos just returned from England Lots of fight s

An eighteenth century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley

The story of John Wilmot, a k a the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his lifes work

Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive only, no one ever wi

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

George Armstrong Custers love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn

The Willie Handcart Company treks across America to the Salt Lake Valley, experiencing many trials and death, as well as 17 miracles

A documentary spanning over 30 years of the California Bay Areas punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of Berkeleys inspiring 924 Gilman Street music collective

Three days before his execution, the elderly Apostle Peter tells his jailer about his time with Jesus

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments

Bringing to light the heartbreaking experiences of Rita Wright, Rita Wenberg, Violet West, Adelaide Wenberg and Valerie Linow, Servant or Slave is a film of courage, strength and the

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning Gods intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome

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

The documentary series examines Ulysses S Grants life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history the Civil War and Reconstruction

The abandoned castles of Europe are magnificent markers of the continents tempestuous history But where they once hosted royalty, these empty, hulking structures are now overtaken by the

An in depth making of documentary about the original Star Wars trilogy, covering the productions of the three films and their impact on popular culture

Actress Megan Fox has peeked behind the curtain of some of these ancient sites, igniting an insatiable curiosity to learn more about these lost worlds She embarks on an epic international journey to investigate and find answers to t

The story of Romulus and his twin brother Remus, in eighth century B C as seen through the eyes of three people marked by death, loneliness and violence

Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks

The series recounts Leonardo da Vincis extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfectio

The pivotal year that essentially ushered in the true 1960s is explored

Researcher Marc Seifer, astrophysicist Travis Taylor and investigative journalist Jason Stapleton investigate the mysteries surrounding the life and work of Nikola Tesla, one of the most important and eccentric scientists in history

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily

The story of the legendary Dream Team, the trendsetting 1992 U S Olympic basketball team

Traces the life of Anita Mui, Hong Kongs legendary Cantopop star

Documentary narrated by Dan Akroyd of paleontologists searching for dinosaurs and the evidence they left behind

Doctrinal press gang and seduction tool, political instrument of the Nazi Party, paramilitary vector in the preparations for war, the Hitler Youth becomes an instrument to deliberately sacrifice an entire youth

Paris, France, 1899 The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret

In 1980s Amsterdam, a family starts the first ever phone sex line but being in the business of sexual desires leads them to question their own