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Peter Wildebloods affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly during the time homosexuality was a crime and the devastating consequences of their relationship

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

Follows King Arthur and his people race home to prevent Mordred from taking over Camelot

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

The story of how Miami became the cocaine capital of the United States in the early 1980s and the police officers who turned the tide on crime

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid torn land enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup

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

Jumping continents and crossing cultures, Planet B Boy looks at the history of breakdancing and its vibrant resurgence in urban cultures around the world

In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar

Oscar winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Annas forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas

Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer

The story of the Soviet Unions famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players

A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin era Soviet Union

In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, meets regularly with girlfriend Allegra until they and their families are sent to Auschwitz When the Nazis learn of his boxing, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matc

Life of Isabella I of Castile, also known as Isabella the Catholic

A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field

Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then President George W Bushs military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage

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

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegels painting The theme of Christs suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564

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

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved now adults living mostly in Australia with their parents in Brita

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil

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

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged southern Belle in the ante bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers her mother was black

A musical retelling of the American Revolutions political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator

Based on a real life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution

Fed up with their Captains harsh discipline, a sailing ships crew decides to take action

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant

A band of soldiers must battle their way through Nazi territory to rescue a scientist that could help turn the tide of WWII

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

In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences

At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future

An in depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King