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The Film explores Britain's port history: ancient coastal trading, Roman influence, Elizabethan expansion, tea trade boom, Industrial Revolution's impact on maritime commerce, and key events shaping prominent ports.

The stories of Gideon and Samson from chapters 6 8 and 13 16 of The Book of Judges

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents From Elaine de Koonings abstract portraits of John F Kennedy to

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake

King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000

Australian detective Colin McLaren investigates the JFK assassination using ballistics expert Howard Donahues evidence of a second shooter in Dealey Plaza

The film concerns the life of King Naresuan, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma Born in 1555, he was taken to Burma as a child hostage there he became acquainted with sword fighting and became a threat to the Bu

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny

A stylish, in depth look at the renaissance in psychedelic drug research in light of current scientific, medical and cultural knowledge

St Petersburg, mid 19th century the indolent, middle aged Oblomov He sleeps much of the day His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U S government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation

What is the common thread among the only four U S Presidents who have been assassinated Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy They were also the only four presidents ever to take money issuing control away from the private b

During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re open the dance hall that led to his depor

A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins The losers will pay with their lives

In White Like Me, anti racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege

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

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames

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

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

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U S Governments subjugation of his people

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963

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

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

The story of Milada Horakova, democratic pre WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country

Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp Knowing that Yamamitsu, the sadistic commandant, will murder th

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil

With his true love captured by the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, the legendary Robin Hood and his crew of outlaws execute a daring rescue to save her

In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges

A soldiers trapped inside a church as last refugee A fight that no one couldnt win A war that no one wanted to lose

Hendrik Goltzius, a late sixteenth century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books

Like it or not, porn is here and it is harmful In this controversial film, award winning filmmaker Justin Hunt dissects the impact of pornography on societies around the globe, from how it

Young real estate agent Clara Morales encouraged risky loans to her clients during the housing boom She must now rescue her fathers home from foreclosure a consequence of the loan she advised him to take

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the right attitude toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home

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