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The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War No words No music Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city

Judge Clarence Thomas nomination to the United States Supreme Court is called into question when Anita Hill, a former colleague, testifies that he sexually harassed her

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community

During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re open the dance hall that led to his depor

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi occupied Netherlands

True story of the undersized Depression era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation

A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospitals emergency room

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm 2002, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime ministers life and career at the end of WWII

A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes

The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village

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

Australian journalist Michael Wares experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war and after

Apocalypse The Second World War2009 is a six part French documentary about the Second World War The documentary is composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters a

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator

Shakespeares powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir

Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland

Based on a real life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution

A biographical story of former U S President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame

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

How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U S cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century

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

The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions

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

A woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim in the ninth century disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks

In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captains uniform Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators hes escaping from

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

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion

In 1477 Charles the Bolds dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule wo a husband Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy fall

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

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony

After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayal, deception, and romantic turmoil Inspired by real events

In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity

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