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A cruel Lombard ruler marries the daughter of another king, kills her father, beats her lover but he ultimately faces a major popular revolt against him

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings

A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty

Martin Scorsese reveals the story of a single performance in 1826 that forever changed Americas cultural landscape with the introduction of Italian opera to New York City an event Mozarts great librettist helped organize Taking

A documentary that chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists used their creativity as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define our culture in the 1980s

A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East

England 1555 An isolated group of salt farmers arrange illegal passage to Europe for an Indian Gypsy family in hiding But a love affair between Patience, a mute English girl, and Rumi, the son of the Egyptians, threatens to destroy

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

The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast on May 7, 1915

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

The difficulty of establishing beauty and the futility of power

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily

The origin of desert rock music is a feature length documentary about the Californian desert rock and punk rock scene, from which bands like Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age arose to kick off its worldwide fame

Compelled by the inheritance of a mysterious box of letters, American aesthete Felix Pfeifle begins the journey of a lifetime to reach the source of the correspondence the last heir of the Holy Roman Emperors, aging Archduke Otto vo

This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950s London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit

13th century France To live, to survive, requires weapons Which do you choose Weapons of war, which give the power to punish and kill Or the sword of knowledge, which gives the power to read and heal Two brothers, separated long

The morning of September 11, 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City, from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers collapse

Five university students risk it all to fight for democracy in the Eastern Bloc after claiming the first descent of the worlds deepest canyon

A masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch trials

This is an exciting, beautifully cinematic film offering a fresh look at Beethoven through the widely acclaimed performances and articulate insight of the great Leif Ove Andsnes

The story of The Tolpuddle Martyrs A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages

From PBS HRH The Prince of Wales reveals an extraordinary treasure trove of rarely seen art by members of the Royal Family past and present, exploring a colorful palette of intimate family memory and observation

French Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec

In Paris during the summer of 1914 a succession of brief liaisons begins and ends with a soldier and a tart, but on the way moves humourously and sometimes poignantly through a fascinating panorama of society and of attitudes to love

In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion of the people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party

A collection of restored prints from the Lumiere Brothers

Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof

Documentary narrated by Dan Akroyd of paleontologists searching for dinosaurs and the evidence they left behind

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

A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypts clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers

The history of the Wolf family in post war Germany in the 40s and 50s

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

An overview of the events of the Suffragette Movement for Votes For Women It follows the individual women who were part of the movement and uses dramatised testimony to tell their stories at key points of their dangerous campaign

1945 Finally, there is peace in Europe In Switzerland too, a whole generation breathes a sigh of relief as it faces a new and hopeful future Peacetime, although long awaited and promising, also holds unforeseen challenges

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