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In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe On September 11 was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks

The life and work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world

An all star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so called Final Solution to the Jewish Question can be best implemented

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern womens movement from 1966 to 1971

In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead

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

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil

With the country on the brink of Civil War, the struggle for freedom is more dangerous than ever Underground follows the story of American heroes and their moving journey to freedom

Follows Declan Harp, a half Irishhalf Cree Native Canadian outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudsons Bay Companys monopoly on the fur trade in Canada

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

Freelance female war reporter Alex Quade covers U S Special Operations Forces SOF on highly classified combat missions Since 2001, she has embedded with elite SOF, including the U S Army Special Forces or Green Berets, Army Rang

The life of Madelyn Murray OHair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists

During the World War 2, a young lads called up and, with increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D day

At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amins regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s

Three Australian couples stumble across an ancient curse in the Outback, and their dream holiday turns into a nightmare that may kill them all

The story of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for only nine days

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

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

1945 Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun In her convent, several nuns are pregnant

After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba

True story set in the Roaring Twenties Sydney about the rise of Berlei, a popular Australian brand of womens lingerie, famous for its bras and girdles

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series

Pasolinis artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucers most erotic tales

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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

Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro slavery Portugal

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

Young and wide eyed, Kathie falls in love with charming yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst, only to find their marriage turning stranger, darker and more disturbing as time passes