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

During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods

Inspired by the scriptural tale Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem

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

Born poor in St Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone

In this drama inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, an anarchist targets one of the worlds biggest banks with an ingenious counterfeiting operation

At the end of the 1930s, Hitler ordered the construction of a special train that could transport him around safely and appease his growing paranoia A veritable fortress on rails, this armored fifteen carriage convoy served as his mo

A tragic love story set against the lynching of 18 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, in 1871 Filmed in Utah

The crew members of NASAs Apollo missions tell their story in their own words

Set during the Anglo Boer War, prisoners of war take a stand against their captors

Teenagers did not always exist In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of you

The story of the assassination of U S Senator Robert F Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty two people in the hotel, whose lives were never

In San Francisco in 1850, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska

A former major league baseball player, Moe Berg, goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services

Depicting Ted Kennedys involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam

Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd and sometimes illicit jobs to support members of her dead husbands aristocratic family

In 1943, a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany uses new methods to rehabilitate those with spinal injuries in Great Britain Based on actual events

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandts romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch

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

In 1765, young English boy Jim Hawkins gets involved with buccaneers during his quest to find pirate Captain Flints treasure buried on a secret island

American Experience Walt Disney

As the new millenium dawns, Baseball is more popular and profitable than ever, but suspicions and revelations about performance enhancing drugs keep surfacing, calling the integrity of the game itself into question

Two sisters live in the shadow of their mothers suicide, struggling to live their lives and protect their loved ones in the face of the Vietnam war

The story of two coalitions ACT UP and TAG Treatment Action Group whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese

A team of secret agents set out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust

In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community

In our post 911 world, a greater understanding across cultures is more important than ever before, yet the purpose of this program is not simply to provide political or historical context Rather it is to explore and celebrate the g

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth century Russian iconographer St Andrei Rublev

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husbands aristocratic position in 18th century England

A poor Midwest family is forced off their land They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression

Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th Century His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end Two women will have a lasting impact on him hi

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers