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Sourcing original 35mm nitrate footage, filmmaker Bill Morrison pieces together a unique visual exploration of WWI from footage that has never been viewed by modern audiences, and will never be seen again outside of this film Serbia

Two men taking a tribe of outsiders on a ride through the 80s underground, accidentally changing music forever

Terry Jones guides us through the history and the nature of the economic boom bust cycle and why people repeatedly ignore it to their sorrow

In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies With the sudden attack by Japanese troops, a Canadian soldiers Christmas promise is broken during the Battle of Hong Kong

Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man

Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War

When Willard and Rebecca Bean are called on a mission to a town thats hostile towards them, they must choose whether to fight for their right to live there or love their hostile neighbors

When a modern day girl faces a big challenge in her life, her mother teaches her about the power of fasting by sharing the story of a heroine from the Bible Your whole family will enjoy

Deep sea explorer Dr Robert Ballard attempts to solve the mystery of Amelia Earharts disappearance in an effort to end speculation about what actually happened to her

Pairing his collection of figurative paintings with an astute conversation surrounding mortality and humanity, Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact offers personal insight into the

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916

A filmmaker journey through the former East Germany looking into her fathers 1999 suicide

In 35 A D , a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain Jesus from Nasareth

This extraordinary documentary poses questions that still resonate today will the machines we build to save humanity end up replacing us or even destroying us Historian Simon Schaffer tells the stories behind some of the most sens

A look at the events leading up to the 1973 tennis match between retired mens champ Bobby Riggs and the current womens Wimbledon winner Billie Jean King

The War ended on August 15th, 1945 What took place in Japan on the previous night The unknown destiny of the day is unveiled

The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists

One of WWIIs bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead Four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome

During the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet occupied Budapest

150 Years ago The British Queen took something thats doesnt belong to them Its priceless, its pride, its dignity Today, He wants it back at all cost

In an oil scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy What no one expected was that a tiny Native community living down the river from Canadas tar sands

Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for Indias freedom from England

During the fourteenth century when the Hundred Years War between France and England ends with the English occupation of French Aquitainia, rebel French Knights vow to oust Edward, Prince of Wales, ruler of Aquitaine

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to take up arms against the invaders, leading

They were criminals, some of them even torturers and mass murderers High ranking National Socialists and fascists were allegedly since 1945 on the run from the justice of the Allies But

The intertwining fates of the historical figures, the men and the women of the 1789 French revolution, as they meet at the newly established Assemblee Nationale

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal

When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho German family follow different paths Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier

On March 1, 1932, the infant Charles Lindbergh, Jr , the son and namesake of the famed pilot, is kidnapped After he is later found dead, a German immigrant named Bruno Hauptmann is tried for kidnapping and murder

On October 15, 2011, thousands of people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery to support the global Occupy movement As the day progressed, hundreds of people set up tents and turned the

A profile of Anita Hill, the African American lawyer who challenged Clarence Thomas nomination to the US Supreme Court and thus exposed the problem of sexual harassment to the world

A dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies

From Executive Producer Hisao Kurosawa, Dreams, Ran, comes the untold story of one of the worlds greatest women artists and why her name was nearly lost to history Many Beautiful Things plunges viewers into the complex age of Vic

A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London