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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCains running mate in the 2008 Presidential election

From childhood to adulthood, Tibets fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers

This movie follows the life of Soekarno, the first president of the Republic of Indonesia, from his childhood until he managed to proclaimed Indonesian freedom with M Hatta in 1945

Dinosaurs were the ultimate prehistoric survival machines, ruling the earth for 120 Million years Until now weve seen them as skeletons and robotic models Dino Body takes a new look at dinosaurs from the inside out Combining c

A love story set during a tense encounter between a wagon train of settlers and a renegade Mormon group

Claude Lanzmanns epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses perpetrators as well as survivors

The story of Adele Hugos unrequited love for a lieutenant

Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own br

Covering a quarter century of American syncopated music Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogiefrom prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII A romance between singer Ki

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves

British historian Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to investigate the 300 year reign of the Romanov dynasty

A documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement from 1952 to 1965

Richer than Frank Lucas More powerful than the Mafia He was the biggest drug dealer in America In 1973 he jumped bail and disappeared with 15 million dollars He has never been seen

A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies

A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts

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

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter

In the 1970s Korea is under the absolute control of the president Park who controls the KCIA the organization with the edge over any branch of government

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leads an unexpected fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s

Noreno, a half Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid 1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day

DCI Caroline Goode vows to bring justice for a young girl, murdered by her family for falling in love with the wrong man

A four part documentary series that explores the many surprisingly unexamined aspects of the Reagan White House, and how Nancy Reagans paper doll image was at odds with the power she ultimately wielded throughout her husbands presi

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self confidence Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly

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

A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS

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