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

In 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a code clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, bolted for the freedom of the West and took many secret documents with him that helped lay waste to a good portion of Russias Western Hemisphere spy system His h

An animated film based on the novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtain

An innocent womans search for her missing sister leads her into the infamous world of Marquis de Sade In a test of wills and wits, she must follow him to his chateau of sin to discover her sisters fate and to determine her own

A portrait of the artist L S Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion

Richer than Frank Lucas More powerful than the Mafia He was the biggest drug dealer in America In 1973 he jumped bail and disappeared with 15 million dollars He has never been seen

A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies

A Documentary of the everyday life of a medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles, CA

Harald Edelstam uses his position as Swedens ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochets 1973 coup detat

150 Years ago The British Queen took something thats doesnt belong to them Its priceless, its pride, its dignity Today, He wants it back at all cost

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, former police inspector Muhsin al Khafaji has lost virtually everything He searches for one of the few things remaining in his life, his missing estranged elder daughter

The story of Fok Yun Gap also know as Hou Yuan Chia one of Chinas greatest martial artists

A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history

Daniel was a recluse who shut out the world yet longed to touch the moon Sandy was a light whose warmth melted his heart and propelled him to the stars

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale Anna Neagle, the young 19th century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing Travel

During 1962s Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U S Soviet chess match and a deadly game of espionage

An examination of the causes of the economic crisis of 2008

A young man, separated from his family in World War II, disguises himself as a Nazi S S Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts

In an oil scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy What no one expected was that a tiny Native community living down the river from Canadas tar sands

H H Holmes was Americas first serial killer believed to have killed nearly 200 people in the late 19th century

Two mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution

Without water, there is no life Join a young woman on a journey of a lifetime to reconnect to the source of water for her, and millions of others

The story of General Romeo Dallaires frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors

The true story of the formation of the Lonesome Dove Church in Texas

Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes

Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for Indias freedom from England

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer Rutger Hauer, Adolf Hitlers Sir Derek Jacobis young architect and one time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy This movie is based on Speers autobiography of the same name

Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for mutual respect and common ground It is the story of Francis of

During the fourteenth century when the Hundred Years War between France and England ends with the English occupation of French Aquitainia, rebel French Knights vow to oust Edward, Prince of Wales, ruler of Aquitaine

Amid the Civil War in 17th century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the

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

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to take up arms against the invaders, leading

Life in Hiroshima, following different Japanese, a German priest and church, and some American POWs, before and after the atomic bomb was dropped August 6, 1945

Out of Print draws us into the topsy turvy world of the written word, illuminating the turbulent, exciting journey from the book through the digital revolution Writers, publishers, readers

In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity

The story of Ted Slauson, a contestant who gamed the rules of The New Price Is Right 1972 through extensive analysis and became a sensation on the game show