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Moderate Jim Bowie leads rebellious Texicans and Davy Crockett in a last ditch stand against his old friend, Santa Anna

At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples lifes pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life

Louis Napoleon III Claude Rains takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg Brian Aherne to add Mexico to his empire

Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels

Mara and her husband Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines Much to their regret, they have not been able to have children One day, a mysterious stranger appe

When the remains of two murdered Princes are discovered at the Tower of London, a troubled Priest must put his beliefs aside to befriend a mysterious prisoner, who has supernatural powers to communicate with the dead Together the

In the pre Spanish era Philippines, a young native princess with goddess like beauty falls in love with a dashingly handsome Spanish soldier Against all odds, and pulled apart by their loyalties to their own people, they fight fo

The Paw Project chronicles the David and Goliath story of a tiny grassroots movement taking on big veterinary corporations in an effort to ban the de clawing of cats

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries An aging American, Ambrose Old Gringo Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen Arroyo and meets Harriet Bi

A biography of St Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to become a nun after hearing St Francis preach

Portugal 1813 A band of deserters, including Sharpes old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage

The life story of the highly influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius

The true story of a single teachers courage to stand up against an untouchable prefects sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland

Two masters must combine their skills to defeat an evil lord

Revolves around Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron who fought on the eastern front during the Indo Pakistan war of 1971 along with his siblings

After a Union soldier flees from battle, rescue comes from a free black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the g

Together with Mereanu, Jianu plots to overthrow the Phanariot regime

A chronicle of the Bronte sisters battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language

The cultural revolution that occurred in the 1960s England is explored in this documentary

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

Thanks to the movie The Imitation Game many people know that Alan Turing was one of the men behind breaking the german coding machine Enigma during World War II But an equally important person was Gordon Welchman, who invented

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life affirming reflection on memory, time and whats

28 lost adventurers must fight for their lives after their only lifeline is destroyed in the most uninhabitable place on Earth Antarctica

When Lance Wood contacts authorities to tell them of the abduction, torture, rape and murder of gay student Gordon Church, committed by Michael Archuleta, they become suspicious of his own involvement in the case

AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA Iran, 1953 Explores the blowback from this seminal event, as well as the coups lingering effects on the present US Iranian relationship Includes a se

Set in 1920s Taiwan under Japanese rule, two men join the Chiu Fen gold rush hoping for riches, while a widow struggles and a prostitute yearns for freedom A mine collapse traps miners as the widow leaves town

A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact

In the early 20th century in Hokkaido, Japan, a treasure hunt between various parties takes place for a hidden stash of gold

In the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance as it is decided whether or not a Jewish athlete can be a part of the German Olympic team

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We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents From Elaine de Koonings abstract portraits of John F Kennedy to

Follows the story of Doctor Ming Wang, one of the worlds top laser eye surgeons

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake

Explore new, fascinating data gathered by military, government, and private organizations in key geopolitical countries, leading many to believe that a unified human effort should be undertaken to study extraterrestrial phenomena

Our Queen at War reveals Princess Elizabeths extraordinary teenage life from broadcasting to the children of the Empire, to putting on pantomimes for the war effort

A documentary that looks at the well known case, which is largely regarded as the greatest unsolved heist in American history