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A kung fu manual known as the sacred scroll is stolen from the Emperors library An army detachment is sent to recover it Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos

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

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo Japanese War An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan

Michael Portillo returns with an authored documentary, that uses British state papers to shed fresh light on key events and personalities during the Civil War period in Ireland

Based on the novel novel by Jane Rogers, the series follows the stories of seven young women who came to live and serve in the household of 19th century cult leader John Wroe

A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858

A murder mystery set in Budapest, 1936 Just as Hungary was preparing to allign itself with Hitler, a young beautiful girl is found dead and no one wants to investigate except Gordon a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that t

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

A biblical orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South

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

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Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Astor, Ford and Morgan Their names are part of history and synonymous with the American dream These men transformed every industry they touched oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobiles, and fin

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

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny

New York, 2010 Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenorio Junior, a young Brazilian samba jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find The Mother of All Voices, a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules

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

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

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

The story of Milada Horakova, democratic pre WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country

An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s

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

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U K

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

A young actor in modern day Hungary gets sent back to feudal times for a week, and tries to make the best of being a serf, while a wry reporter comments on the action, finally becoming more involved in it than he could have ever wished

A queen who lost three kingdoms A wife who lost three husbands A woman who lost her head

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall

A burnt out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution

Young real estate agent Clara Morales encouraged risky loans to her clients during the housing boom She must now rescue her fathers home from foreclosure a consequence of the loan she advised him to take

In 1944, an Allied spy must find and execute a Berlin scientist who discovered the way to build an atomic bomb Things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the chase

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

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars

Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them

Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers

Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971