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Tyrone aimlessly embarks upon an obfuscating journey into nonsensical frustration as he tries to locate German V 2 rockets at the end of World War II, as a soldier in the United States Armys Operation Paperclip

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built

A young program coordinator at the United Nations stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraqs oil reserves

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

Based on the classic didactic novel, the action centers on the noble lady who soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of the French court of the religious wars era

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

A poor Midwest family is forced off their land They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression

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

True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944

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

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 journey of a man who was instrumental in making India win its first Olympic gold medal as a free nation

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

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

When a modern day girl faces a big challenge in her life, her mother teaches her about the power of fasting by sharing the story of a heroine from the Bible Your whole family will enjoy

In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands 66 day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands emotive, non violent protest to be classified as

The second in a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth Sissi of Austria, the film chronicles the married life of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict life in the palace and an overbearing mother in law

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

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

During the First World War, a female German spy Fraulein Doktor and her team of saboteurs plan to kill Lord Kitchener, obtain the Allied defense plans and steal the new French mustard gas formula