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The difficulty of establishing beauty and the futility of power

Two stories separated by 1400 years After losing his mother in the midst of a war torn country, an Iraqi child, learns the importance and power of patience by discovering the historical story of Lady Fatima and her suffering

A documentary following nurses, doctors, and administrators as they respond to the COVID 19 pandemic

The story of Indias incredible cricket World Cup victory in 1983

13th century France To live, to survive, requires weapons Which do you choose Weapons of war, which give the power to punish and kill Or the sword of knowledge, which gives the power to read and heal Two brothers, separated long

The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalins private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictators death Told from Sanchins view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his

My mother has died Her name was Maria I discover among the objects left by my mother hundreds of photographs of my maternal grandfather, of my great aunt, of my parents Together with my brother, we will have to reflect on our mem

French Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec

The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist, Raymond Briggs

Unearthing the terrible secrets hidden in the tomb of Chinas first emperor The Terracotta warriors are just the tip of the iceberg in a mausoleum the size of Manhattan, which has gone largely unexcavated

A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster Told by William Colbys son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir

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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The 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England

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

While leading the Third Crusade, King Richard the Lionheart George Sanders battles treachery in his own camp as well as the Saracens and their charismatic leader Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin Sir Rex Harrison

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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

Documentary based on Owen Hart and his life outside of the ring, containing footage of his family after his sudden and tragic death

Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jeronimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro and becomes an accomplished government offi

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

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 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

April 1940 The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hiters war machinery Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat

The story is set in the 12th century in Arab ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are not liked by everyone The caliphs politic

Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian hummus tragic Every week in his Bondi Beach home he observes the hummus making ritual, mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina But when the Hummus War erupted in 2008, among t

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

A bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heinekens 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands most infamous crimes

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

December 7, 1941 On a Sunday morning, TOMIKAZU TOMI NAKAJI and his best friend BILLY DAVIS are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when the Japanese launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor As Tomi looks up

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

A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS leader Heinrich Himmler