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After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayal, deception, and romantic turmoil Inspired by real events

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale Anna Neagle, the young 19th century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing Travel

A young man, separated from his family in World War II, disguises himself as a Nazi S S Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts

H H Holmes was Americas first serial killer believed to have killed nearly 200 people in the late 19th century

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre revolutionary era

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

How did tattoos go from something that was put on you to an expression that comes from within you That transformation is the subject of a new groundbreaking documentary film, TATTOO NATION

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

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

Follows Portugals first fascist superhero the ultra patriotic Captain Falcon

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

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

The Optimists is a Russian spy drama series that brings a 1960s Mad Men aesthetic to the Nikita Khrushchev era, set during peak Cold War The show opens during the 1959 American National Exhibition in Sokolniki and continues to un

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles

An investigation of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Kleins proposition that neo liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance

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

Enslaved

This is the story of the life of the great queen of of the steppe legendary Tomiris She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the ScythianSaka tribes under her authority

Revisiting the twisted lives of some of the most frightening, diabolical characters in recent history The stories trace the heinous, criminal acts of these elusive miscreants and the eventual road to justice

For the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two part study, director and co screenwriter Jacques Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English As J

December 1897, Paris Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties He has not written anything for two years In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in

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

Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family

A documentary about how video games are made, marketed, and consumed by looking back at gaming history and culture through the eyes of game developers, publishers, and consumers

An action packed and heartwarming story of the friendship formed between a tank destroyer dog of the Red Army during WWII and a group of soldiers

The past has a future we never expect Exterminate All the Brutes is a four part HBO documentary series from filmmaker Raoul Peck that challenges how history is being written

A documentary following the journey of xinyao literally songs of Singapore in Mandarin since its birth

This British film was made about Canadian historian Dan Gibson, who has uncovered startling new archaeological evidence that Mecca was not the original Holy City of Islam

80 years ago antibiotics revolutionized medicine Only now are we realizing the potentially catastrophic consequences of these miracle drugs The question is have we reached a point where we must save antibiotics to save ourselves

During World War II, the British must attack a German ship, but its safe in neutral Goa As a result, they send civilians former soldiers who are about sixty years old

Based on the true story of Manchester Uniteds legendary Busby Babes, the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of their number

Southern attorney Angie Lawrence searches of the rightful owner of a journal recovered from an antebellum home she inherited The journal is full of mystery and history that just may lead her to the future she has always dreamed of

In this award winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed looks at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli Palestinian conflict

Feature documentary charting the journey of film director Dan Edelstyn as he tracks down his long lost Jewish Ukrainian heritage and then attempts to relaunch his great grandfathers once glorious vodka empire The film constitutes a

Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co exist with the Sodomites, a disastrous decision