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Long ago, Japan was home to several navies The Murakami Navy, said to be the strongest of them all, once defeated even Nobunaga, and refused to join Hideyoshi, choosing to pursue their love of freedom and the sea The man who led

In October 1970, members of the Front de liberation du Quebec kidnapped Minister Pierre Laporte, triggering an unprecedented crisis in Quebec Canada Fifty years later, Felix Rose is trying to understand what could have led his fa

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A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned t

Set right before the fall of Thailands old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies

1402 Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden, Norway and Denmark through her adopted son, Erik But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her lifes work the Kalmar Union

This documentary film chronicles the process of renaming Ft James Island, which was a holding cell for slaves during the Trans Atlantic Slave trade, to Kunta Kinteh Island after one of The Gambias most well renowned sons It sh

After defeat at the Siege of Osaka several survivors attempt to deliver a young prince to safety

Macedonia on the turn of the century is enslaved by decaying Ottoman Empire Freedom fighters, in order to raise money for their cause, kidnap American lady who works in Protestant mission

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandak

Destined couple, Bhop and Gaysorn, have their love and beliefs challenged in the midst of savage threats during the expansion of colonial rule

In 1936 when 18 African American athletes participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, history forgot all except one This is the story of the other 17

Tells the story of the last months of the 20 year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained

An alien ship encounters a strange flying object the Voyager spacecraft Professor Dr Georg Friedele wants to teach the aliens about evolution on earth but the more the aliens listen the angrier they turn towards the humans

In this documentary, the hotshot director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, now 83 years old, is interviewed about his career,and a number of his colleagues and admirers weigh in with reminiscences and tributes

The Day Carl Sandburg Died is a dynamic exploration into the life and work of the iconic American, Carl Sandburg From an impoverished youth on the prairie of Illinois to the halls of Congress and the Ed Sullivan Show, it was a ta

In the chaos of the final days of the Italian revolution a thief and a baker hook up and travel the streets of Milan witnessing the historic events, which quickly take a dark turn

Ukraine, 1918 As a Bolshevik army of about 4 000 men, commanded by General Muravyov, advances towards Kyiv, with the aim of capturing the city, a small Ukrainian unit of 400 soldiers about 300 of which are students is resisting

Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance Josef gets an incredible commission to write an opera for the San Ca

Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored

During second world war,Philippe Petain gets absolute powers The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial

Across America, the morning of September 11, 2001 began routinely, with news and radio broadcasts sharing local human interest stories and traffic reports But by 9 a m , the days narrative had taken a tragic turn Most of us are

A few years after the events of Man of Marble 1977, a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkuts son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike

You Got to Move is a documentary by Lucy Massie Phenix Winter Soldier and Veronica Selver Word Is Out that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social

The Mighty Eighth Air Force tilted the balance for the Allies during World War II This is the story of how they did it, using rare archival footage and dramatic eye witness accounts of the airmen and the commanders themselves

While a director makes a film about this the origins of Cinema in Colombia, suddenly, his mother, apparently suffers a strange mental disease without explanation she stops talking This situation forces him to stop his film and s

Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national cinema and protected it from extremists Afghan Canadian director Ariel Nasr crafts a thrilling and utterly original story of modern Afghanistan

A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitlers rise to power

Newly discovered archive footage and witness accounts to lay bare the tragedy and heroic efforts made to prevent another explosion

Between 1998 and 2005, a wave of murders targeting elderly women hit Mexico City, triggering the hunt for and capture of a most unlikely suspect

Farrah Fawcett plays real life Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife who, with the help of her Jewish law student husband, Serge, began an unrelenting campaign after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, mo

In a bid a bid to support the Battle of the Bulge, Himmler launches a surprise offensive into France against nearly arrived, green US troops

Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today

What is the validity of history found in the Bible Is it fact or fiction What does the hard evidence really have to say about the foundational story of the Old Testament the Exodus out of Egypt An in depth investigation by docume

Based on Bill OReilly and Martin Dugards best seller comes this shocking thriller starring Rob Lowe and Ginnifer Goodwin As John F Kennedy Lowe rises to become U S president, a