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The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist, Raymond Briggs

A docu drama that follows Manoel de Oliveiras life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal

A military detective investigating the murder of a poet in the immediate aftermath of the Korean War

An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaigs decades spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland Drawing on over 30 years of unique and never

Our primal curiosity has sparked new inventions and revealed the mysteries of the universe This eight part mini series strives to trace the pivotal innovations that make us modern

The inspiring story of trailblazing African American entrepreneur Madam C J Walker who built a haircare empire that made her Americas first female self made millionaire

A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans

Paris, France, 1899 The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret

In the Ural Mountains, nine students go on a ski hike, but never return Local investigators must piece together what happened to them when their bodies are found a month later

In 1980s Amsterdam, a family starts the first ever phone sex line but being in the business of sexual desires leads them to question their own

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution

Long ago, Japan was home to several navies The Murakami Navy, said to be the strongest of them all, once defeated even Nobunaga, and refused to join Hideyoshi, choosing to pursue their love of freedom and the sea The man who led

Explores Pompeii, a city cloaked in mystery which, over the course of history, has influenced culture and art, from Neoclassicism to Contemporary Art, through images and words by the great artists and writers who visited and imagined

A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him

A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out

Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas and skies

The story of the rise and fall of the Boleyn family during the reign of Henry VIII Told through the narration of historical academics juxtaposed with actors performing several significant scenes

Film maker Oliver Stone revisits material used in the making of the film JFK along with additional material that has come to light since

The story of Queen Victoria from her coronation, focused on her meeting and marriage to Prince Albert and the way they established shared responsibilities until his death

Documentary feature film focusing on the life and times of Eva Hesse, a ground breaking artist who was active in New York and Germany in the 1960s

One of the greatest and bravest incident from the life of The Great Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj where he defeated Afzalkhan with his brilliant tactics and courage

Its January 30th 1933 the day Hitler comes to power and the German Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz

Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr David Livingstone

Paris 1940 Lili is 17 years old In occupied France, she encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any

A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away

A documentary that tackles the ideological conflicts surrounding the December 21 election in the country, to the push for sovereignty and subsequent parliamentary declaration of independence and the aftermath

A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned t

Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge

Sir Francis Hamilton, ambassador of King Charles II, sails from England to Jamaica where he has to sign a peace treaty with France On the way to the Carribean his ship is attacked by a band of pirates, headed by the dreadfully re

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944

Utilizing ground penetrating radar, LiDar and 3D scanning, Lin will work with boots on the ground archaeologists to discover and re create unexcavated worlds still hidden beneath the earth

It showcases the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the Colosseum, one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of humanity

The mysteries surrounding her fathers death in the Vietnam war lead ultra endurance mountain biker Rebecca Rusch on an emotional journey as she pedals 1200 miles of the Ho Chi Minh trail

The American Experience looks at Hebert Hoovers American Relief Administration and its efforts to distribute food during the Great Russian Famine of 1921