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A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends

A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets

A look alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos

The story behind Nass groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, and the early life of one of the most talented rappers of all time Featuring Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, Q Tip, and Busta Rhymes

A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospitals emergency room

During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo Opposing them was Banzui in Chobei,whose sole aim was to save Edo from the hatamoto as their

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where theyre horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons

A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself

In 1947, following the U N decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Palestinian states, a former U S Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah

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

Bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the Internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism The film shows the players who are defining how this technology will shape our

A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history

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 profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer

UNDER AFRICAN SKIES is a really great film in which Joe Berlinger travels back to South Africa with Paul his first trip back in 25 years, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the historic Graceland album Paul reunites with the band to give a re

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

An unscrupulous agent for the Borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger, very beautiful wife

The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago

Eric Liddell Chinas first gold medalist and one of Scotlands greatest athletes returns to war torn China

When a realtor shows an old New York factory building to a group of would be investors, they are unwittingly caught in its tragic and sinister history

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain

During the Tang Dynastys during the era of Zhen Guan era name during rule of Emperor Taizong, the young Xuan Zang monk, in his quest for the knowledge in Buddhism, embarked on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils and

During World War II, a hand picked group of American GIs undertook a bizarre mission create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience The 23rd Headquarters Special Tro

This film describes the events surrounding a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge reservation in S Dakota where two FBI agents were killed

A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery

Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teachers death Huo Yuanjia in Japanese occupied Shanghai A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas

With The Walking Dead franchise at the peak of its popularity, Documentarians Cris Macht and Ian Vacek explore and examine why humanity is obsessed with the zombie apocalypse Cris and Ian interview fans that have been there since

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini Guy Pearce enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con him

Drama about the friendship between an Oxford educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn of the century Savannah

This documentary examines the conditions and circumstances that ultimately led to the birth of the Unites States, and the extremely important, yet little known, role Polish immigrants played in the genesis of America as a country in

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar a k a El Cid overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors

In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders

A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti

This feature length documentary juxtaposes a 21st century scenario against the cautionary history of Montreals 1885 smallpox epidemic to depict a modern city under siege

Fresh Dressed chronicles the history of Hip Hop ltgt Urban fashion and its rise from southern cotton plantations to the gangs of 1970s in the South Bronx, to corporate America, and everywhere in between Supported by rich archival mate