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The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest

In 17th century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun

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

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

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers

An amazing look at the immense cultural impact of the Back to the Future trilogy 30 years after McFly and Brown went on an epic adventure

A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II

Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s

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

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

A look at the life, work and political activism of one of the most successful television producers of all time, Norman Lear

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end

The story of the struggle to create the television series, Star Trek The Next Generation 1987

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

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

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

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts

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

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

What does it mean to lead men in war What does it mean to come home Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Af

A young womans desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from

In 1905, a teenage Alice has just moved to the Pacific Northwest She follows a mysterious man down a rabbit hole, leading her into Wonderland, a dark and curious world inhabited by characters from turn of the century America and the

A retrospective look at the life and work of influential electronic music DJ, Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Arc

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Forces 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany

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

Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britains first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is...

Dolly Payne Madison is the daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, DC who falls in love with Aaron Burr and James Madison

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

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D Day They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasi

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

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging In this heart felt story of love and spirituality we follow the lives of Melody and her mother Sara Beth Ellis as they struggle on their farm during the war Melody has created a fantasy world around her as

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

An in depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nations history of racial inequality