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In 1759, in Pennsylvanias Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians

It was a primitive time long ago when the nomadic tribes of the Huns ruled the Great Steppes After her clan is destroyed, Hora is taken captive but secretly plans to seek her revenge In this barbaric world of violent warriors an

A Cajun man attempts to save his town

During the Vietnam War, US Air Force pilots who flew 100 combat missions could go home The tension built relentlessly as they survived each sortie This is the story of the survivors and the fallen

The trajectory of the clumsy reporter Agamenon Mendes Pereira, always present in key events of history, his biggest scoops and his eternal love for Isaura, who survives his unexpected travels around the world, in search of news an

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk

In 1936 when 18 African American athletes participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, history forgot all except one This is the story of the other 17

Documentary about the life of Harry Chapin

Scattered across the United States are abandoned structures, forgotten ruins of the past and monuments to a bygone era that reveal the secrets of a hidden America

In the Nazi occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot

This film explores the ins and outs of the Dominici Affair that made the headlines back in 1952 As a result of the case, a family man named Gaston Dominici was sentenced to death for the slaying of a family of English tourists al

In 1953, the film evokes the 1848 49 periods up to the revolutionary struggle of the internal and external enemies Petofi start there in the events, even in the ranks of waiver is that Bems army in order to fight Bem fights the

Black baseball greats, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, vie to be the first afro American major leaguer, only to see the outspoken rookie, Jackie Robinson, be chosen

In 1244, during a time of religious persecution, Pope Innocent IV and King Louis IX of France sought to eradicate a pacifist Christian group known as Cathars The last of the Cathar heretics found protection at the Castle of Monts

The second play in Shakespeares series of histories covering the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V Shakespeare muses on the consequences of actions, the role of princes and the realities of wielding power

Georg Baselitz Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden explores the artists brilliant career through his 2007 retrospective exhibition at Londons Royal Academy of Arts Accompanied by curator Norman Rosenthal, who first exhibite

In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding

The mesmeric story of a nine year old aboriginal Australian orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries An aging American, Ambrose Old Gringo Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen Arroyo and meets Harriet Bi

The journey of two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream creating the worlds first fully painted feature film

The Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate and the Nixon administrations campaign to gaslight her into silence

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington

Follows Kishi Bashi as he goes on a journey to learn about history and its relevance when a media interview links the muslim ban and the immigration crisis at the USA Mexico border with the incarceration of Japanese Americans duri

In 1978, filmmaker George Lucas is persuaded to turn over Star Wars to the world of the 70s variety hour, culminating in The Star Wars Holiday Special 1978, often cited as one of the worst forms of entertainment of all time

Swashbuckling tale of romance, betrayal, jealousy, banditry, murder, and court intrigue set in the 1660s, during the Restoration to the English throne of King Charles II

The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a brood sow, he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place

American Pain traces the rise and fall of twin bodybuilders from Florida who become the kingpins of the largest oxycodone trafficking network in US history

Follows Martin Luther Kings life and decades long civil rights activism

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life affirming reflection on memory, time and whats

AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA Iran, 1953 Explores the blowback from this seminal event, as well as the coups lingering effects on the present US Iranian relationship Includes a se

Discover how the North Korean people suffered famine, labor camps and public executions, while the Kim regime spent three generations relentlessly pursuing nuclear ambitions

Philip Vincent built the fastest and most glamorous motorcycles in the world yet he ended his days in poverty Some 40 years after he died, one of his machines sold for over 1 million This is his untold story

Fill in the map of Britain's beloved canal network by taking a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. It's a story where hard graft, soft cheese and fine China collide.

The history and resurgence of the electronic modular music synthesizer

Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today