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Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, former police inspector Muhsin al Khafaji has lost virtually everything He searches for one of the few things remaining in his life, his missing estranged elder daughter

A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history

H H Holmes was Americas first serial killer believed to have killed nearly 200 people in the late 19th century

Without water, there is no life Join a young woman on a journey of a lifetime to reconnect to the source of water for her, and millions of others

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to take up arms against the invaders, leading

In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity

Who was General Tso, and why are we eating his chicken This feature documentary explores the origins and ubiquity of Chinese American food through the story of an iconic sweet and spicy chicken dish

For a seventy year period, when America cared little about the education of African Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was an educational utopia An incubator for black pride and intellect, it tau

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre revolutionary era

A journey through Mongolia, Japan, China and South Korea, narrated by the journals of Finnish linguist, diplomat and journeyman G J Ramstedt 1873 1950

In rural Alabama, architecture students cross the threshold of poverty to build communities, not just structures, and leave snakebit to make a better world

The career and death of notorious Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar

The history of The Beatles and their influence on everything from music, art, and culture to fashion and politics

About the life and death of the legendary SwedishAmerican agitator Joe Hill

When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho German family follow different paths Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier

Sara is a a 13 year old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identi

Edith Walks is a 60 minute 66 second feature film inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards on Sea in East Sussex The film documents a pilgrimage in memory of Edith Swan Neck Bits of King Harold

In 1796, Captain George Bryan Beau Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the Army but is chosen as the Princes personal advisor

High Relief began as a documentary about Amendment 2 in Florida While filming, the director had his first seizure and was diagnosed with epilepsy The film shows the pros and cons of

A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, depicted through non narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov

From Executive Producer Hisao Kurosawa, Dreams, Ran, comes the untold story of one of the worlds greatest women artists and why her name was nearly lost to history Many Beautiful Things plunges viewers into the complex age of Vic

In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolandas initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station They were, for all intents and purposes, stranded in Tacloba

From Willie Nelson to Wilco, Ray Charles to Radiohead, A SONG FOR YOU THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS STORY offers the ultimate backstage pass to 40 years of incredible live music see how long time producers and loyal fans have made ACL th

The Bible story of Esther starring Louise Lombard, F Murray Abraham and Jurgen Prochnow

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great

Two decades before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty 1981, Dame Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story The setting is Persia in the fourth century B C , as Es

The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Ear

An American returns to his native Dutch village in the nineteen thirties and causes a sensation there When his pregnant daughter starts an affair with the son of the local cheese factory

Based on the novel by Pulitzer winner Annie Proulx, BARKSKINS follows a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization late 1600s New Fran

In the sixteenth century, a noblewoman has a love affair with the French King

Young George Matcham visits his uncle Lord Nelson and the vulgar Lady Hamilton With the clear eyes of youth, he measures Nelsons stature and notes his feet of clay And yet, Nelson is a hero, a great man How can this be resolved

Jerry Lewis The Man Behind the Clown chronicles the remarkable life and genius work of one of the most iconic and incomparable comic performers and filmmakers of our time

In late nineteenth century America, Rising Free portrays the story of a young woman living in the aftermath of racial prejudice Surrounded by danger of being sold and further stripped of freedom, she discovers hope through a graciou

Recounts the true life, previously secret, back channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization

This film is based on the true character of Robert Denard known as Bob Denard in the 60s when he fights in Democratic Republic of Congo As a mercenary, he defends President Mobutu who

In 1820 Louisiana, river pirates tangle with plantation owners while gambling ship pirate queen Lili Scarlet falls in love with planter Andre Tulane to the dismay of rival Hugo Marat, leader of the river pirates