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

A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors

Since the end of WWII, the United States has acted as the worlds policeman Does it have to be, forever

A groundbreaking 26 part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II

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

In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organized crime group of stranglers and thieves

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century

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

Anglo Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India

War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975

Loie Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergeres at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse Lautrec and the Lumiere Brothers The film revolves around her complicated relationship with protege and rival Isadora D

The life and times of the woman who reformed the Russian empire

Dramatization of the little known side of the writer Emily Dickinsons life, in particular, her relationship with another woman

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

Harald Edelstam uses his position as Swedens ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochets 1973 coup detat

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

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale Anna Neagle, the young 19th century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing Travel

Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for mutual respect and common ground It is the story of Francis of

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

Diversity in video games is extraordinarily important especially to the people who play them Explore the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games

A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia

As WWII comes to an end, a group of Buchenwalds emaciated prisoners risk their lives for the safety of the camps youngest inmate a four year old Auschwitz born Jewish prisoner Is there a future for the Buchenwald boy

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

An account of Orson Welles 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic

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

How did tattoos go from something that was put on you to an expression that comes from within you That transformation is the subject of a new groundbreaking documentary film, TATTOO NATION

A wild and rollicking martial arts fantasy extravaganza that features prized swords and swordsmen, a crazy monk attached to a rolling boulder yup, serious clan and cult rivalries, and lots of magic and flying

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great

When Russias first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster

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

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertsons young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band

An account of the gangster Mahindra Dolas and his gang, which terrorized Mumbai City, and a massive war between Mumbai Police and gangs during 16 November 1991

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

The Optimists is a Russian spy drama series that brings a 1960s Mad Men aesthetic to the Nikita Khrushchev era, set during peak Cold War The show opens during the 1959 American National Exhibition in Sokolniki and continues to un