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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

This thrilling yet, at its core, empathetic and humanist film looks at the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War Depicting the events preceding Eichmanns ex

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

By Fist of Fury, Kim Hyun Soo Sang Woo Kwone addicted to Bruce Lee Year 1978 Hyun Soo moved to KangNam, Seoul Hyun Soo transferred to JungMoon High, Maljuk Street, Kangnam, Seoul He goes schooling by No 78 Bus First day a

During the Highland Clearances, William Chisholm sets out on a journey to seek out what was taken from him William strikes up an uneasy companionship with battle weary Andrew Gunn

Biographical film about Shirley Chisholm, Americas first Black congresswoman

The story of small town Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy, who found an ingenious way to save Bardejovs Jewish population from being sent to Auschwitz during World War Two

The Black Prince is a story of Queen Victoria and the Last King of Punjab, Maharajah Duleep Singh His character as it evolves, torn between two cultures and facing constant dilemmas as a result His relationship with Queen Vict

A Dutch exploration team sets sail to find the North East passage to the Indies The weather had other ideas for them

Fill in the map of Britain's beloved canal network by taking a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. It's a story where hard graft, soft cheese and fine China collide.

During the Indo Pakistani War of 1971, the Bhuj airbase is attacked and a race against time begins to rebuild the damaged airstrip

Based on the real story during Kargil war fought between India and Pakistan in 1999

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

A spot light on an often forgotten episode in British history Nazi Germanys occupation of the British Channel Islands

Cute lover boy Heo Saek becomes Joseons first male gisaeng and a flower like woman named Hae Won who thinks ahead of her time, search for true love together

The stories of Gideon and Samson from chapters 6 8 and 13 16 of The Book of Judges

Noted director of The Housewife blends politics with romance to weave a story of two activists in hiding in a remote shack The intimate setting proves to be fertile ground for hidden desires

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

Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today

In 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America

A documentary following the Black Arm Band, a gathering of Australias finest Aboriginal musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of struggle, resistance and freedom

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000

At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japans navy into war with the United States He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overr

Prince Naresuan is now the crown prince of Ayutthaya and the king of Burma is dead While the new Burmese king is waging war, the crown prince plots to assassinate Naresuan Hearing this, the prince decides to evacuate Thais out o

When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter

This documentary examines the great problems and ingenious solutions that marked the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, tracing its transformation from a spectacular feat of heroic engineering to an honored symbol in American cu

An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners

Set in 1905 The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arres

Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know

What is the validity of history found in the Bible Is it fact or fiction What does the hard evidence really have to say about the foundational story of the Old Testament the Exodus out of Egypt An in depth investigation by docume

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community

Space Tourists succeeds in surprising its audience with images and situations that have very little to do with the futuristic fantasy of space tourism The filmmaker sets up encounters with the least likely people imaginable place