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Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson

As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work He and his brother both fall for Mary G

Racing Through the Forest The History of the 1950 56 Pebble Beach Road Races Inspired by the memoirs of the Del Monte Forest Road Race history, the Pebble Beach Concours and Pebble Beach Company teamed up with KampK Productions B

A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel, the 93 year old style maven who has had an out sized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, from legendary late 88 year old documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincolns assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux K

After Debbie Smith was raped, she didnt take the law into her own hands She wrote the law

The story of Joseons tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance

A faraway war A clash of ideologies And some of the biggest battles fought on African soil since World War Two

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

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, former police inspector Muhsin al Khafaji has lost virtually everything He searches for one of the few things remaining in his life, his missing estranged elder daughter

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

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

WEST AFRICA 1869 Slave trade is illegal There is a revolt on a slave ship twenty four men fight for their lives Out gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agencys battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies

In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolandas initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station They were, for all intents and purposes, stranded in Tacloba

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war time Japan

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

During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships

After an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden near a town in the Misiones province named after the 19th century politician Leandro N Alem, he persuades the producers to change the project, as a po

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asuncion, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires

Follows Portugals first fascist superhero the ultra patriotic Captain Falcon

In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War

Set during the reign of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the film depicts the story of Hira, a simple village woman When the gates of Raigad fort shut before she can leave, Hira dares to climb down a cliff in the dead of the night to ge

Cologne Ehrenfeld, November 1944 Theyre young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time But working class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued

Four part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans

Follows the adventures of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972 in preparation for a war that could erupt at anytime

U S fighter pilots are recruited to test experimental aircraft and rockets to become first Mercury astronauts TV adaptation of Tom Wolfes book, The Right Stuff

Small Axe is based on the real life experiences of Londons West Indian community and is set between 1969 and 1982

After unearthing a tomb that had been untouched for 4,400 years, Egyptian archaeologists attempt to decipher the history of the astonishing find

Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer DArtagnan

The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars of 1812

A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days

A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS

A news reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems

The history of the greatest and most lavish palaces in the world