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An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J M W Turners life

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War

The temporary physical life of the Biblical Savior, Jesus Christ

The life and work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world

Filled with testimony and recollections from actual C I A agents, this in depth account reveals the remarkable true story of the pursuit of the worlds most notorious terrorist, Osama bin Laden

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village

A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth

The story of the Soviet Unions famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players

A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times

A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects

Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the citys ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the

In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards

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

In 1942, Britain sends a group of British trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted

Life of Isabella I of Castile, also known as Isabella the Catholic

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

In 1971, twenty four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building

Shows how the classic board game has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, and follows the colorful players who come together to compete for the coveted title of Monopoly World Champion

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

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

THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexua

A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field

Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then President George W Bushs military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers

Get Thrashed The Story of Thrash Metal is the story of how bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus and others pioneered a new form of heavy metal in the early 1980s

A retrospective look at the life and work of influential electronic music DJ, Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Arc

Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britains first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is...

Dolly Payne Madison is the daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, DC who falls in love with Aaron Burr and James Madison

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity

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

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging In this heart felt story of love and spirituality we follow the lives of Melody and her mother Sara Beth Ellis as they struggle on their farm during the war Melody has created a fantasy world around her as

German Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer and build his empire But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963