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A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times

A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west

Operation Market Garden, September 1944 The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines

The idealist William Wilberforce Ioan Gruffudd maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade

The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors

Nine part series telling the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day, for the first time on a global scale It is now nearly half a century since Kenneth Clarks series Civilisation thrilled audiences with its

Australian journalist Michael Wares experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war and after

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one

The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which have become a powerful status symbol in booming China

A dramatic yet heart warming story of cross cultural friendship among children in the aftermath of WWII, presented by Tokyo based award winning animation studio Production I G Based on true events

Capitao, a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group

Two Britons, Hengist and Horsa, are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Caesa

In 1985, a gay dance understudy hopes for his on stage chance while fearing the growing AIDS epidemic

The fates of Henry a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul and Teresa, one of the Republics censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government

A black comedy about two nineteenth century grave robbers, who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school

Against his countrys orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II

Nostradamus prophecies are interpreted alongside messages from ancient cultures about galactic alignment and the end of the world

A soldiers trapped inside a church as last refugee A fight that no one couldnt win A war that no one wanted to lose

A group of U S soldiers defy their country when they release mistreated prisoners

Between 2013 and 2015, a group of nonprofit attorneys seek nonhuman clients for whom they can advocate in two U S territories, in order to establish legal personhood for elephants, cetaceans and nonhuman apes in the U S

In 11th century Normandy, a Norman duke sends one of his knights to build a defensive fortress in order to guard the borders against Frisian raiders

A burnt out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution

During the World War 2, a young lads called up and, with increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D day

A two tiered romantic drama focusing on the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcAe Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard

The first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou

A true story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937 38

How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U S cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies

A documentary detailing an indiscriminate terrorist attack that left 71 dead in Kenya

During World War II, a hand picked group of American GIs undertook a bizarre mission create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience The 23rd Headquarters Special Tro

The Nazi evolution from murderous anti semitism into organised death camps, as documented in this sober piece of historical excavation from Holocaust specialist James Bulgin, is truly shocking in its specificity An ad hoc interpr

An examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christs life told in an anachronistic manner

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built

A documentary feature chronicling the history of two New York icons and the journey that brought them together for the last musical performance at Shea Stadium