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

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

Nine part series telling the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day, for the first time on a global scale It is now nearly half a century since Kenneth Clarks series Civilisation thrilled audiences with its

Australian journalist Michael Wares experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war and after

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

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging In this heart felt story of love and spirituality we follow the lives of Melody and her mother Sara Beth Ellis as they struggle on their farm during the war Melody has created a fantasy world around her as

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966

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

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963

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

The story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter culture

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

Between 2013 and 2015, a group of nonprofit attorneys seek nonhuman clients for whom they can advocate in two U S territories, in order to establish legal personhood for elephants, cetaceans and nonhuman apes in the U S

The life of Madelyn Murray OHair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists

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

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

Based on The New York Times best selling novel, Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful, eye opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U S President Abraham Lincoln

A computer programmer becomes fascinated with the digital currency Bitcoin, and through his involvement in the Bitcoin community, we learn about the impending global impact of this amazing new technology

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

How a group of NSA code breakers had a chance of preventing 911

The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it

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 Nazi evolution from murderous anti semitism into organised death camps, as documented in this sober piece of historical excavation from Holocaust specialist James Bulgin, is truly shocking in its specificity An ad hoc interpr

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

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague

Marvel celebrates the history of Captain America, both in the comics and on TV and film, and examines the character as a reflection of American culture throughout the years

The history of one of the key commanders of WW2, the head of RAF Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Bomber Harris

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

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

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

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

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

Emilia Breaking Free is a suspense drama about the fight for freedom in Soviet repressed Lithuania in a society where a more satiated life seems more important than honour, a clear conscience or humanity It is the spring of 1972,

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword

This feature length documentary juxtaposes a 21st century scenario against the cautionary history of Montreals 1885 smallpox epidemic to depict a modern city under siege

An African American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s