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A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II

Biopic of Saturday Review editor and political journalist Norman Cousins who developed and promoted a self made health therapy consisting of intake of large quantities of vitamin C and making oneself laugh as much as possible

Henry Rollins discusses different subjects throughout history

France, 1789, just before the Revolution With the help of a surprising young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his noble master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first ever restaur

Set in 1973, Hong Kong The Hong Kong governor sets up Independent Commission Against Corruption to investigate and arrest the corrupted chief Chinese inspector Tsui Lok, and gang boss Crippled Ho

The real life story of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife so he could be with his young lover But was he truly guilty of murder

The deeds of a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and family to live the clandestine life of an armed revolutionary for Puerto Rican independence

a look at the famous music festival

A young slave girl, Anna, is rescued and adopted by Christians in 2nd Century Smyrna and befriended by their aged bishop, Polycarp As Anna is taught by Polycarp and her new family, she struggles to reconcile her beliefs with thos

In the chaos of the final days of the Italian revolution a thief and a baker hook up and travel the streets of Milan witnessing the historic events, which quickly take a dark turn

France, 1914 The destinies of four women intersect Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent and Suzanne, a feminist n

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Scattered across the United States are abandoned structures, forgotten ruins of the past and monuments to a bygone era that reveal the secrets of a hidden America

In the Nazi occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot

The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious figures, including Ingmar Bergman, they have worked with

A documentary on Jacques Verges, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy

In 1940, a struggling poor young man falls for a girl who must pay a terrible price to save her mentally disabled brother by marrying a powerful shrewd businessman Then Rotterdam Blitz, a devastating German bombardment, begins

Manfred Goldfish tried to put a lid on the trauma that made him a refugee in 1939 When his daughter unearths Manfreds extraordinary story, she finds where she belongs, and we touch on the truth for millions of others

The second play in Shakespeares series of histories covering the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V Shakespeare muses on the consequences of actions, the role of princes and the realities of wielding power

The Mighty Eighth Air Force tilted the balance for the Allies during World War II This is the story of how they did it, using rare archival footage and dramatic eye witness accounts of the airmen and the commanders themselves

Relive an unspeakable tragedy detailed with unforgettable images, videos, and recordings only recently rediscovered

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouacs meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S Burroughs in 1997 Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three wr

Tells the hard to believe story of the mythical basketball legend from Watts California who was blackballed from the NBA in the early 70s following an ugly contract dispute with the Philadelphia 76ers

A quick look at the slums of Nairobi, Guatemala City, and Manila

When lost footage from the 1920s depicting a corporate land grab in the early days of globalization arrives back in Liberia, it sparks inquiry into how Liberians lost sovereignty over the very land that sustains them

The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments In HD

Intimate portrayal of the events captured by the ordinary people on September 11

The story of Alan Freed, the pioneering disc jockey who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock n roll in the 1950s

In Roman dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that hes actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar When Petronius daughter

Documentary looking predominantly at the plight of the poor in the East End of London during World War II air raids of 1940 How much of what is now seen as an example of British Bulldog bravado was actually acts of desperation an

Rogue intelligence agents, right wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination

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

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

A demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt

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