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Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probi

In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco sustainability of supports, paper has become a rare item, a luxury possession, controlled by the Big Z Zimurgh Corporation

On his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom

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

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husbands aristocratic position in 18th century England

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

Exploration of great archaeological discoveries, fascinating ancient civilizations, forgotten architectural marvels and tantalizing historical mysteries

The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperors son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire

A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the twentieth century

A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous friends, escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France

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

In early 1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian emigre and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelganger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one Will he get over the deep de

After declassified FBI files about Hitler have been released, a group of specialists work together to try and find the truth of Hitlers supposed death Did he really die in the bunker

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro democracy rally in Manchester

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine

The biographical story of Michelangelos troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to fulfill the former glory of the city

Dramatization of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt, from the exploration of tombs in the early 1800s, to the unraveling of the Rosetta Stone to translate the ancient language on the tombs, to the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb

The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France

From PBS Around 800 BC, Kush, a little known subject state of Egypt, rose up and conquered the Egyptians, enthroned its own Pharaohs, and ruled over the empire of King Tut for nearly 100

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero

Max and Helene, a television film, loosely based on the novel by Simon Wiesenthal, which tells the true story of an absolute love for what tortured between Max, a promising student Jew

Atti, a smart and quick witted Roman teenager, manages to upset Emperor Nero with one of his schemes For punishment, Atti is sent to work in a cold and wet Britain where he also meets the Celts

When a Japanese pilot crash lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Niihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the locals until they discover he was part of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor

A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel, the 93 year old style maven who has had an out sized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, from legendary late 88 year old documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles

This extraordinary documentary poses questions that still resonate today will the machines we build to save humanity end up replacing us or even destroying us Historian Simon Schaffer tells the stories behind some of the most sens

Documentary telling the remarkable story of Donald Trumps family history, an extraordinary immigration success story What can we learn about the next President of the United States from his background

The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth Sissi of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe

An unemployed American worker, a Tea Party activist, and a Chinese solar entrepreneur race to lead the clean energy future But who wins and who loses the battle for power in the 21st century

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

Life in Hiroshima, following different Japanese, a German priest and church, and some American POWs, before and after the atomic bomb was dropped August 6, 1945

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war time Japans military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival

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