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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

Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro slavery Portugal

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

Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present day dominance

In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco sustainability of supports, paper has become a rare item, a luxury possession, controlled by the Big Z Zimurgh Corporation

Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center

A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean

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

Young Tom Hall Art Parkinson and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941

An examination of the conventional bombs and missiles that are reshaping modern warfare Also discussed are the counters to these weapons

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

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama

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

The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas Stonewall Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers

American Experience Walt Disney

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein

A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti

On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Bucaco by the Anglo Portuguese army of general Wellington Despite the victory, Portuguese and British are forced to retreat from th

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCains running mate in the 2008 Presidential election

In 1929, an expedition of university botanists enter an uncharted forest where they discover, and must escape an ancient organism

A documentary that questions the cost and value of higher education in the United States

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

The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army

In this animation feature, the ancient legends of King Solomon are humorously adapted for children, with a contemporary and fresh overtone Adventure, magic, battles and love The hopeful ending celebrates the crossing of borders bet

The story of a family embroiled in the White Terror that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s

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

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation

Since the end of WWII, the United States has acted as the worlds policeman Does it have to be, forever

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years The prisoners name was Nelson Mandela

The next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperinis powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace

The amazing story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtrack to Christmas