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Portugal 1813 A band of deserters, including Sharpes old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage

Who is Alex Jones Looking past caricature to a human character study, Alexs War uses unprecedented access to examine the rollercoaster career of Americas most infamous, charismatic and divisive public figure

The story of the Russian born, Wisconsin raised woman who rose to become Israels prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s

The history of the Boer War, fought between the British Empire and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State between 1899 and 1902

After a Union soldier flees from battle, rescue comes from a free black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the g

An in depth interview with Jose Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA

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

The Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial of 19471948 is considered the largest murder trial in history against members of four death squads from the security police and SD the security service of the SS During World War II, six mill

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a brood sow, he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard How a horrific incident of racial violence became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in W

Billy Graham explores the life and career of one of the best known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century From modest beginnings on a North Carolina farm, Graham rose to prominence with a fiery preaching style

In Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population

Chronicles the trial of Goldman, a French left wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered

Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex commander Grey after his capture by ISIS With the help of U S military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and attempts to escape the country while being hunted by

In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners

Discover how the North Korean people suffered famine, labor camps and public executions, while the Kim regime spent three generations relentlessly pursuing nuclear ambitions

Anne and Freja seek revenge on the men who murdered their family They end up in Stockholm, where they are drawn into a political power struggle between Sweden and Denmark which culminates in a mass execution

Sergeant Suleyman finds a little girl on a battlefield during the Korean War He takes her and names her Ayla Fifteen months later, Suleymans brigade is told they will be returning to Turkey, and he is reluctant to leave her beh

Julia travels to the Indo Burma border to perform for the troops during World War II on the insistence of her lover Billimoria, and ends up falling in love with a soldier there, Jemadar

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II

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

A spot light on an often forgotten episode in British history Nazi Germanys occupation of the British Channel Islands

An action, spy film set in the backdrop of the Japanese colonial era

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton s ill fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914 1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio intervie

A documentary following the Black Arm Band, a gathering of Australias finest Aboriginal musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of struggle, resistance and freedom

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Prince Naresuan is now the crown prince of Ayutthaya and the king of Burma is dead While the new Burmese king is waging war, the crown prince plots to assassinate Naresuan Hearing this, the prince decides to evacuate Thais out o

10 people escape bombing on small boat, which unexpectedly stops and sinks mid journey Passengers struggle to survive as boat goes down

This history of the co op film movements of Sydney and Melbourne comes from two of the major figures in Australian documentary who were intimately involved in the filmmaking groundswell that first emerged in the 1960s The Ubu gro

Straightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne

A look at the history of American hobo life

To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, John Simpson, the BBC's world affairs editor and longest-serving correspondent, goes back to his reports on what he believes is the most important story he ever covered,

A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery

During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 890 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters

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