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The story of one of the most famous men in history You might think you know him the heroic and successful discoverer of America Now think again

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

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his fathers family, and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved

Bringing to life the everyday details of the ancients Egyptians bizarre, hilarious or shocking this wonderfully entertaining and factually revealing film is packed full of surprises

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

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

A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples struggle over the rights to their land

In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaohs court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets

The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas Stonewall Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers

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

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis

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

A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother

A dramatisation of the early years of Doctor Who 1963, with the story revolving around BBC executive Sydney Newman, novice producer Verity Lambert and actor William Hartnell

The story of how the British attacked German dams in World War II by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective

A deep dive into the hidden world of constructed languages and the fascinating people who make them

In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captains uniform Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators hes escaping from

A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares

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

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

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitlers Sir Anthony Hopkins last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send 5 million in gold to save the Confederacy

Can the greatest mysteries of the past be solved by modern science The truth is up there, hidden among the stars, in a place we call The Universe

George Armstrong Custers love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn

Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green

During the 17th Century a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within

Three days before his execution, the elderly Apostle Peter tells his jailer about his time with Jesus

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K G B s longest serving British spy

The man hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Mark Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines

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

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer Rutger Hauer, Adolf Hitlers Sir Derek Jacobis young architect and one time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy This movie is based on Speers autobiography of the same name

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