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A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames

The idealist William Wilberforce Ioan Gruffudd maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as issues of the past emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups

The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find The Mother of All Voices, a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts

In 1905, a teenage Alice has just moved to the Pacific Northwest She follows a mysterious man down a rabbit hole, leading her into Wonderland, a dark and curious world inhabited by characters from turn of the century America and the

Lyndon B Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of John F Kennedys assassination and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act

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

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D C from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D Day They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasi

The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which have become a powerful status symbol in booming China

A dramatic yet heart warming story of cross cultural friendship among children in the aftermath of WWII, presented by Tokyo based award winning animation studio Production I G Based on true events

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U S Governments subjugation of his people

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

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

A sweeping journey about an American returning a surrendered Japanese samurai sword from World War II

The story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter culture

In 1994, journalist Enza Massa visited the Italian National Library in Rome While she was researching old texts, Enza discovered a book titled NOSTRADAMUS VATICANICA CODE, dating back to

Based on a true historic figure during Ayothaya Era, the film depicts the life of Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Thailand and became the governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat province in souther

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

In 11th century Normandy, a Norman duke sends one of his knights to build a defensive fortress in order to guard the borders against Frisian raiders

A burnt out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution

Widower Thomas Jefferson 3rd US president 1801 09 lives in Paris 1785 90 with his daughter He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France He has an alleged affair with her resulting in kids

A child possessed An exorcist locked in combat with an ancient evil In the battle for saving a soul, just who really is the Hostage to the Devil

Do you shape the world or does it shape you Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, and with a torrent of mind expanding ideas and information, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH will make you think again about what it means to be free

Defying the Nazis The Sharps War Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and Martha Sharp, a trained social worker, in February 1939, boldly commit to a life threatening mission in Europe to assist refugees

The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry

A young boy struggles on his own in a run down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression era Midwest

The career of Shakespeares Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400 1413

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim

A computer programmer becomes fascinated with the digital currency Bitcoin, and through his involvement in the Bitcoin community, we learn about the impending global impact of this amazing new technology

During the English Civil War, two opposing soldiers find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch

The life story of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, from his beginnings as a rebellious young artist in 1920s Amsterdam to his rise to infamy as one of the most ingenious art forgers of all time

The zombified leaders of the free world rise from the dead to hunt down a group of ill fated teens and give them a lethal lesson in American history Their only hope for survival is to summon the demonic spirit of John Wilkes Booth