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The worlds greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays

Do you shape the world or does it shape you Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, and with a torrent of mind expanding ideas and information, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH will make you think again about what it means to be free

An unscrupulous agent for the Borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger, very beautiful wife

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn

At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death

A look at the platonic relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her female readers during the first days of the French Revolution

A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round the world yacht race

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim

A drama about terrorism in Apartheid era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime

The death of Americas oldest continuously operating hospital, New Orleans Big Charity

Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls

During the English Civil War, two opposing soldiers find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch

A look at Vietnam from the perspectives of a U S Marine adviser, and a Vietnamese Marine who was left behind

Deep Time portrays the landowners, state officials, and oil workers at the center of the most prolific oil boom on the planet for the past six years

Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps

The zombified leaders of the free world rise from the dead to hunt down a group of ill fated teens and give them a lethal lesson in American history Their only hope for survival is to summon the demonic spirit of John Wilkes Booth

A true story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937 38

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his fathers family, and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved

A film about the highway that connected the American colonies The discovery and preservation of historic places in Philadelphia The true origin story of America

During the Tang Dynastys during the era of Zhen Guan era name during rule of Emperor Taizong, the young Xuan Zang monk, in his quest for the knowledge in Buddhism, embarked on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils and

A story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa

During the final days of the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbled An unlikely group of heroes emerged as Americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands

Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine

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

A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising

This film describes the events surrounding a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge reservation in S Dakota where two FBI agents were killed

What does it mean to lead men in war What does it mean to come home Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Af

In the heart of a young woman, lies a secret that divides a nation

Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he ne

The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War

Simon Armitage presents the extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine year old girl Jennet Device, a beggar girl

Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971

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A look at John Hinkleys 1981 assassination attempt against U S President Ronald Reagan

Based on the true story of Richard The Night Stalker Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down