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Noted director of The Housewife blends politics with romance to weave a story of two activists in hiding in a remote shack The intimate setting proves to be fertile ground for hidden desires

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi

Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000 year old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens thats been called the British Pompeii due to the remarkable levels of preservation

In this meticulously researched documentary, filmmaker Mark Hall traces the origins of sushi in Japan to its status today as a cuisine that has spawned a lucrative worldwide industry

Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival

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

Saketh Rams wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country and sets out to kill him

Learn first hand how our nations key decision makers responded in the face of chaos and catastrophe on 911

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chiles 1988 referendum

Based on the popular conman character of KIM Seon dal from Korean folktale who famously sold the water of Daedong River

An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners

Judge Clarence Thomas nomination to the United States Supreme Court is called into question when Anita Hill, a former colleague, testifies that he sexually harassed her

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

An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of twenty two thousand Polish officers during World War II A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years

New York, 2010 Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenorio Junior, a young Brazilian samba jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976

The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II

Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer

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

An eight year old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father

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

An amazing look at the immense cultural impact of the Back to the Future trilogy 30 years after McFly and Brown went on an epic adventure

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

The story of the struggle to create the television series, Star Trek The Next Generation 1987

Based on the real life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days

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

Operation Market Garden, September 1944 The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern womens movement from 1966 to 1971

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegels painting The theme of Christs suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564

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

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...

Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challengers 1986 disintegration

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

A disparate group of African American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March

This latest entry covers the period from the early 1990s onward Labor relations deteriorated badly in the early part of that decade leading to the players strike in August 1994 The Montreal Expos were the best team in baseball at

An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s