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Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador Now, the diplomats life hangs in the balance helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate and his fear of the captors themselves

Francos Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past

The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state Yugoslavia The film, bursting

1941 An Italian soldier heads to the Eastern Front, the bloodiest theater of conflict of World War II 2018 Another war starts in the same area, reopening old wounds in Europe

Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews escape to Sweden in October 1943

Four paranormal researchers and YouTubers document the paranormal claims of the Harrisville Farmhouse The inspiration for the well known movie The Conjuring Is it truly haunted

On January 20, 1942, leading representatives of the German Nazi regime met in a villa in Berlin Wannsee for a meeting that went down in history as the Wannsee Conference, at which the systematic murder of 11 million Jews was decided

Can a family separated by the transatlantic slave trade sing and dance its way back together In Perico, Cuba is an Afro Cuban group that has kept alive songs and dances brought aboard a slave ship by their ancestor, known only as

During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, when Wu Sangui died, the senior general Ma Bao begins to seek protection to escort Chen Yuanyuan and his grandson to live in seclusion Qingping Escort Agency, the No 1 Escort Agency, takes

Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill fated love

In 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an axe

Newly discovered archive footage and witness accounts to lay bare the tragedy and heroic efforts made to prevent another explosion

Between 1998 and 2005, a wave of murders targeting elderly women hit Mexico City, triggering the hunt for and capture of a most unlikely suspect

The story of Alan Freed, the pioneering disc jockey who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock n roll in the 1950s

Documentary centers on the vending machine popularized in the 20th century that offered fresh cooked meals in a commissary style eatery

The movie inspired by real events tells the story of the KV 1 tanks crew heroic deed Having a losing fight, the crew of Semyon Konovalov destroyed 16 enemy tanks, 2 armored vehicles and 8 vehicles with enemy personnel near Nizhn

The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen

Captain Hale takes over command of a U S Naval vessel as it prepares to take part in the invasion of Okinawa in the Second World War His crew includes a rowdy gun crew who punctuate fire missions with banter and antics

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as hes torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich

A chronicle of the Bronte sisters battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language

Brendas first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal family Decades later, she feels disconnected from both halves of her life But the trau

Historian Lucy Worsley and a team of experts re stage Victoria and Alberts wedding It was regarded as the wedding of the century at the time

When snow began falling in the UK on Boxing Day 1962, it barely stopped for the next 10 weeks It was the coldest recorded winter since 1739 when temperatures plummeted to minus 22 degrees

In a bid a bid to support the Battle of the Bulge, Himmler launches a surprise offensive into France against nearly arrived, green US troops

A Dutch exploration team sets sail to find the North East passage to the Indies The weather had other ideas for them

Margaret Mountford investigates how and why the people of Pompeii became frozen at the moment of their deaths, and views the reconstruction process of life like wax recreations of two of its people

Philip Vincent built the fastest and most glamorous motorcycles in the world yet he ended his days in poverty Some 40 years after he died, one of his machines sold for over 1 million This is his untold story

One of 12 Westerns made in 12 months during 2020, The Wilderness Road tells the story of the most notorious land pirates who stalked the Southeast during the turn of the 19th century Samuel Mason Creek Wilson, a Revolutionary W

King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor

At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly

The story of eleven prostitutes who refuse to part ways with their brothel and each other during the partition between India and Pakistan

Enter the Clones of Bruce dives into the Bruce Lee exploitation craze, otherwise known as Bruceploitation

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chiles 1988 referendum

Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family

A look alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos