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A look at the life, work and political activism of one of the most successful television producers of all time, Norman Lear

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage

What really happened during Shakespeares Lost Years Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream

What does it mean to lead men in war What does it mean to come home Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Af

A young womans desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Arc

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Forces 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany

Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britains first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is...

Dolly Payne Madison is the daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, DC who falls in love with Aaron Burr and James Madison

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved now adults living mostly in Australia with their parents in Brita

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex lovers wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials

A story set in nineteenth century China and focusing on the life long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging In this heart felt story of love and spirituality we follow the lives of Melody and her mother Sara Beth Ellis as they struggle on their farm during the war Melody has created a fantasy world around her as

A documentary in which Freda Kelly looks back at her career as lifelong secretary for The Beatles

Proposes a minute by minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world

German Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer and build his empire But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor

In 1985, a gay dance understudy hopes for his on stage chance while fearing the growing AIDS epidemic

The fates of Henry a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul and Teresa, one of the Republics censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika

Following the assassination of President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husbands historic legacy

The story of Milada Horakova, democratic pre WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husbands incarceration

With his true love captured by the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, the legendary Robin Hood and his crew of outlaws execute a daring rescue to save her

This is not a surf movie, it is a film about surfings deepest roots in the subconscious in ancient lore in the craft of surfboard building in mans perpetual quest for a joyful relationship with the natural world

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive

As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever

A portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship

The story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub

Against his countrys orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II

A drama about English settlers in America in 1617

Nostradamus prophecies are interpreted alongside messages from ancient cultures about galactic alignment and the end of the world

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U K

A soldiers trapped inside a church as last refugee A fight that no one couldnt win A war that no one wanted to lose

Hendrik Goltzius, a late sixteenth century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation