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Kutshers Country Club is the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutshers has been family owned and operated for over 100 years Exploring the full Dirty Dancin

A documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement from 1952 to 1965

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment Who is responsible

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

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

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

As America prepares to enter WW2, Hungarian film director Michael Curtiz grapples with political intervention and a dysfunctional relationship with his estranged daughter amid the troubled production of Casablanca in 1942

WEST AFRICA 1869 Slave trade is illegal There is a revolt on a slave ship twenty four men fight for their lives Out gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s

The story of Japanese American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II

During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi occupied France

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war time Japan

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between the UK, France, Poland, Nazi Germany, and the U S S R from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britains declaration of war on Germany, caused by Hitlers invasion of Poland

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

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

Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune

Snowbound and desperate, some of the Donner Party died of starvation Some of them did not They all sang

In Wittelbacherpalais, Munichs prison and Gestapo center, middle aged Else Gebel awaits trial for carrying anti Nazi material She serves as a clerk in the Gestapo office On Thursday, 18 February 1943, two youths arrive at the pris

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

Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life

William Hoy was one of the first Deaf Major League Baseball players in the 1800s Being deaf, he introduced hand signals for strike and ball to the game and overcame many obstacles to become one of the greatest players of his time

World war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces

Follows the adventures of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972 in preparation for a war that could erupt at anytime

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold

After the coup dEtat of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them Italy These brave men are represented in this out

After unearthing a tomb that had been untouched for 4,400 years, Egyptian archaeologists attempt to decipher the history of the astonishing find

Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer DArtagnan

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti

A fencing master in pre revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman Although he has never taught a woman before, he is fascinated by her and agrees She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famou

In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singers many eccentric friends and admirers

A four part documentary series that explores the many surprisingly unexamined aspects of the Reagan White House, and how Nancy Reagans paper doll image was at odds with the power she ultimately wielded throughout her husbands presi

Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s As she attends the bedside of Jerome, her second husband, Elisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in

When Warren Jeffs rose to Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, he took control of a religion with a history of polygamous and underage marriage In a short time, Warren managed to expand these practices and the

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator When Fabiolas father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins Rhual confesses to be a christi

Actress Megan Fox has peeked behind the curtain of some of these ancient sites, igniting an insatiable curiosity to learn more about these lost worlds She embarks on an epic international journey to investigate and find answers to t

Revisiting the twisted lives of some of the most frightening, diabolical characters in recent history The stories trace the heinous, criminal acts of these elusive miscreants and the eventual road to justice