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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

MATTHEWS tells the incredible true story of the life and career of a man considered by many to be the greatest soccer player of all time, Sir Stanley Matthews

A legendary high school football coach is surprised to find a theater filled with 400 players and their families and friends His players created a documentary to honor him for his incredible accomplishments some forty years ago

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

In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine What was e

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 elderly apostle John lives as a prisoner in the penal colony on the island of Patmos, where he gets inspiration to write the Book of Revelation

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

The story of the invention of football and how it quickly rose to become the worlds most popular game by crossing class divides

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

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

An account of the gangster Mahindra Dolas and his gang, which terrorized Mumbai City, and a massive war between Mumbai Police and gangs during 16 November 1991

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid 1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day

The film is based on the third battle of Panipat which took place on the 14 of January in 1761 between the Marathas and the King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Abdali

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks How can they be rescued before they run out of air

Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign