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What is the common thread among the only four U S Presidents who have been assassinated Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy They were also the only four presidents ever to take money issuing control away from the private b

Set in 1905 The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arres

Jewish brothers in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non comba

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change

Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9 11 terrorist attack

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

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart

A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospitals emergency room

In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe On September 11 was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War

The life and work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world

A dramatization of Nazi Germanys final Western Front counterattack of World War II

A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth

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

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life

In 1942, Britain sends a group of British trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services

A native Javanese boy and a mixed Dutch girl fall in love during the early 20th century colonial turbulence in Dutch East Indies now Indonesia

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted

In 1971, twenty four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building

Winston Churchills wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself

Based on the real life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days

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

Get Thrashed The Story of Thrash Metal is the story of how bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus and others pioneered a new form of heavy metal in the early 1980s

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity

A story set in nineteenth century China and focusing on the life long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U S Governments subjugation of his people

Proposes a minute by minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world

German Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer and build his empire But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor

A disparate group of African American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March

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