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At the turn of the century lumber was a booming industry in a savage land Upon the unexpected death of his father, Daniel Rimsdale returns home to try to salvage the floundering family lumber business, find out who killed his father

Dramatization of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt, from the exploration of tombs in the early 1800s, to the unraveling of the Rosetta Stone to translate the ancient language on the tombs, to the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb

A Chronicled look at the fall of the Romanov dynasty in Russia

The story of the Medal of Honor the highest U S award for valor in combat is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring

A documentary about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, a German film director most notorious for making the most effective propaganda films for the Nazis

The man hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Mark Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor

The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France

A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonels decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Clouds sizable Sioux force

Sergeant Hoover went to war to preserve the Union After being captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp, he understood what it was to be kept against his will Together with a friend he escaped and, aided by slaves, made it to fre

An Egyptian police officer named General Yousef al Masri lives in Karamouz neighborhood in Alexandria The film dates back to the reign of King Farouk before the 1952 revolution in the English occupation of Egypt

A cinematic portrait and history of the long running American childrens magazine, Highlights Magazine

Danish director Mads Brugger and Swedish private investigator Goran Bjorkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjold As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary

Amidst a constant stream of hundreds of film clips, dozens of filmmakers voice their opinions on the titular question while primarily looking beyond the Hollywood mainstream to independent, experimental, documentary and avant garde f

The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 911

Documentarian Dinesh DSouza analyzes the history of the Democratic Party and what he thinks are Hillary Clintons true motivations

In August 1969, 500,000 people gathered at a farm in upstate New York What happened there was far more than just a concert Woodstock tells the story of a legendary event that defined a

Based on the life of the Israeli spy, Eli Cohen

A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War He marries a widow to rescue her from an arranged marriage They keep each others secrets and find true love

The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters and Communists by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis

Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing 1 tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1s deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport fore

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history

Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavatis beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar

In 1959, a working class government employee in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home To his

Inspired by letters he reads when he buys a 150 year old farmhouse, writerdirector Rory Feek pens a story about the wife of a civil war soldier who enlists in the army and fights her way across the country to find her missing husban

A group of determined Midwestern women begin providing safe but illegal abortions in this 1960s period drama based on a true story

A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel, the 93 year old style maven who has had an out sized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, from legendary late 88 year old documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles

Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War

GANGSTA WALKING THE MOVIE First collaborative movie about Memphis Hip Hop and Dance culture, EVER Gangsta Walking the Movie tells the hidden secrets of how the Memphis Rap Music and Dance

Who were the men and women of the Apollo Space Program Where are they today What do they think of the extraordinary effort they helped make possible Half a century later, Project Apollo remains the single greatest initiative in pe

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments

In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies With the sudden attack by Japanese troops, a Canadian soldiers Christmas promise is broken during the Battle of Hong Kong

Documents the beliefs and experiences of Timothy McVeigh in the lead up to his bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which claimed 168 lives

Award winning documentary about the last remains of the mentally ill

The story of the Australian exploitation genre cinema of 1970s and 80s

Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines