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A famous prison escape sparks the idea for a cult like race that has seen only 10 finishers in its first 25 years This award winning, oddly inspiring, and wildly funny documentary reveals the sports worlds most guarded secret

After Japans attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, USA bombs Tokyo to boost morale A pilot survives thanks to a Chinese womans help

In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain

Rebellion is a five part serial drama about the birth of modern Ireland The story is told from the perspectives of a group of fictional characters who live through the political events of the 1916 Easter Rising

This compelling new documentary explores the impact of American manufacturing on both ordinary citizens and the national economy

After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco

Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive only, no one ever wi

Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman Others in the expedition are the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro democracy rally in Manchester

True tale about two men planing to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine

The biographical story of Michelangelos troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II

A remorseful bomber pilot turned minister rejoins for the Korean War

The muscular Hercules performs his Labors, sails with the Argonauts, and romances the fair Iole

The incredible tale of Mozarts Prague years

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send 5 million in gold to save the Confederacy

Dinosaurs were the ultimate prehistoric survival machines, ruling the earth for 120 Million years Until now weve seen them as skeletons and robotic models Dino Body takes a new look at dinosaurs from the inside out Combining c

Peasant Myles Falworth is trained for knighthood and is groomed by various nobles to defeat the evil Earl of Alban whos plotting to usurp King Henry IVs throne

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion

For generations the name Albert Schweitzer has been synonymous with hands on compassion and the power of Christ like sacrifice Now director Gavin Miller presents a landmark drama about the legendary Christian medical missionary Co

British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill Sir Michael Gambon suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a secret from the rest of the world

Dramatized portrayal of the Apollo manned space program

In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state ordered transport of convicts upset his plans

George Armstrong Custers love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine

Set in Ireland during the War of Independence, two sisters lives are changed forever as they care for a wounded soldier What transpires is a tragic love story of a household and its inhabitants, caught in the crucible of dark deep s

Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend Once alerted to his friends whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to fulfill the former glory of the city

Alone yet Not Alone is based on the inspirational, true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, two immigrant sisters forced to embark on a journey of faith that will lead them through the darkness of war into the light of freedom

Two brothers named Jamar and Suwo came back to the land of Java to avenge their father, who was a Sultan, after years of exile in America

While King Richard is away at the Crusades, some Nottingham nobles and their Sheriff plot to confiscate estates of fallen Crusaders but Robin Hood and Maid Marian foil their plan

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States

An ex aristocrat from France and an alcoholic English lawyer find themselves crossing paths and in love with the same woman during the French Revolution

In 1877 Wyoming, during the peace negotiations between the Cheyenne and the USA, an Indian girl falls in love with a land surveyor, causing the ire of her Cheyenne fiance

Set in W W 1 the film follows the story of the Canadas 21st battalion as it prepares for the battle of Courcelette in September 1916

A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F Buckley