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A young girl is sold into a red light district brothel and tries to adapt to life as an oiran courtesan

How small, idealistic, Finnish company, Nokia, became the global leader in cell phone technology only to become drunk with success, lose its visionary style of leadership and completely fail to predict the rise of its death knell, iP

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

Oliver Stone s re examination of under reported events in American history

Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece

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

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

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

The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of eighteen to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert

A film about the greatest pre Woodstock rock music festival

Fire in the Night relives the tragic events that occurred on the Piper Alpha rig on 6th July 1988 It was a catastrophe that killed 167 men and left only 61 survivors, each of whom had to fight for their lives to escape the huge, lab

An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian Austrian war of unification However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U S Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida

Schreiber was one of Oppenheimers brilliant young physicists recruited for the Manhattan Project during World War II He was entrusted to carry the Plutonium core to Tinian Island where hed assemble the atomic bomb known to history

A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Franciscos first elected gay city supervisor

The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England

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 John Wilmot, a k a the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his lifes work

Mary Stuarts Saoirse Ronans attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I Margot Robbie, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution

Resistance at Tule Lake tells the long suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U S governments program of mass incarceration during World War II Branded as disloyals and re imprisoned at Tule Lake S

In 1987, U S Senator Gary Harts presidential campaign is derailed when hes caught in a scandalous love affair

A dramatization of the life of LGBTQ+ trailblazer, voracious learner, and cryptic diarist Anne Lister, who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall

Told exclusively through the voices of present day Native Americans, The Native Peoples of Glacier National Park tells the poignant story of the Kootenai, Salish and Blackfeet peoples and

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her

Caviar Dreams is a fish farm to table journey through the history, culture, and significance of one of the worlds most iconic delicacies

A famous prison escape sparks the idea for a cult like race that has seen only 10 finishers in its first 25 years This award winning, oddly inspiring, and wildly funny documentary reveals the sports worlds most guarded secret

Americas Blues takes a new angle on the Blues, focusing on, not only the musical impact it has had on all forms of Popular American Music, but also the influence it has had on art, fashion, language, film and racial equality

After Japans attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, USA bombs Tokyo to boost morale A pilot survives thanks to a Chinese womans help

In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain

Rebellion is a five part serial drama about the birth of modern Ireland The story is told from the perspectives of a group of fictional characters who live through the political events of the 1916 Easter Rising

This compelling new documentary explores the impact of American manufacturing on both ordinary citizens and the national economy

After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco

Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive only, no one ever wi

Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman Others in the expedition are the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker

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

True tale about two men planing to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them