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An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century

Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion This colorful movie depicts DeSades life from childhood to manhood A life infamous for erotic

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was invited to South Africa in 1893 to settle a case for a wealthy Indian settled there He expected to return in a few months but instead got involved in the freedom movement and eventually stayed for 21 y

In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeons apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians

In 1820 Louisiana, river pirates tangle with plantation owners while gambling ship pirate queen Lili Scarlet falls in love with planter Andre Tulane to the dismay of rival Hugo Marat, leader of the river pirates

In 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II

In 1905, Polish horse thieves living near the Russian border find their livelihoods threatened by the new Russo Japanese conflict because the Russian army requisitions all horses and forcibly conscripts all men for the war

William Hoy was one of the first Deaf Major League Baseball players in the 1800s Being deaf, he introduced hand signals for strike and ball to the game and overcame many obstacles to become one of the greatest players of his time

The U S Navys SEALAB, a pressurized underwater habitat complete with science labs and living quarters for divers, helps advance deep sea diving and rescue

This is the story of the days directly after 911, and the presidents whereabouts

Belle Melina Mercouri is a tempestuous gypsy girl who is after Sir Paul Deverill Keith Michell Her plan is to marry him and take him for every cent he has before moving on to other lovers

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessels officers The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre

Roman slave Lurcio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero Administering to the participants of his masters orgy guests seems small compared to the trouble the scroll brings

Follows the adventures of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972 in preparation for a war that could erupt at anytime

An intentionally noncommittal version of the Cuban revolution told through flashbacks, the film recounts Ches switch from doctor to politico in Castros campaign

During the Japanese occupation, two men travel across the country compiling the first Korean language dictionary

The true story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time

The Burning of Atlanta is the story of the destruction of a major city near the end of the war, and the desperation and terror this causes in the lives of those who watch their entire society collapse around them

Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe

Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s As she attends the bedside of Jerome, her second husband, Elisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium

The lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo Japanese War

December 1897, Paris Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties He has not written anything for two years In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in

The World War II story of the Royal Navys effort to defeat Nazi Germanys most powerful warship

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wang

This powerful and thought provoking film chronicles the compelling events in the Pacific Theater of WWII, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the American occupation of Japan in 1945 It depicts the strength and courage of Am

As the 2008 financial crisis loomed, frantic efforts to save the US from economic collapse happened in secret VICE News explores the untold stories of powerful people leading the way

In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army

The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930s to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor

A documentary that examines the inspirational life of Dayton O Hyde as a modern day renaissance man and one of the last old style cowboys

The story of Abraham Lincolns childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him for ever and the two women who guided him to immortality

The Civil War on Drugs is a historical drama that the WKUK made to document the journey to legalize marijuana during the War Between the States

This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romanias 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu

A university student returns home to self isolate during lockdown Hes totally alone, hes caught the virus and in order to cope hes started to talk to himself