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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

Albert Einstein turns the science community upside down with his discoveries including a formula to put bubbles back in beer and rock n roll

They are a rogues gallery of the most notorious despots in recent history From Hitler to Saddam Hussein, from Stalin to Kim Jong il of North Korea, from Chairman Mao to Colonel Gaddafi these are the psychopaths, the heartless ideolo

Paris, June 1940 The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus

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Moscow, 1952 Anna is taken to the Kremlin where she has to cure Stanlin himself She needs to keep the secret at all costs and as her relationship with the URSS leader grows, her couple with Vassilli tumbles

The last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate

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

Period drama about the pilots and flight attendants who once made Pan Am the most glamorous way to fly

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine

Political humorist Mo Rocca takes an irreverent road trip to see how voting works and doesnt work in America

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

Wild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun runners

While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests As Philippe makes his long journey home, he encounters various charac

The history and development of motion picture machinery is lovingly and authoritatively presented and narrated by ASC cinematographer and film preservationist, Karl Malkames, using actual early motion picture cameras from The Malkam

The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 Cherkasy is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014

A speech given by Archaeologist and explorer, Brien Foerster, at the Open Mind Conference

Narrated by Jeremy Irons, this definitive account tells of the heart rending human rights tragedy in 1992 when hundreds of Azerbaijanis were massacred after Armenians stormed the city of Khojaly

A movie adaptation of Homers second epic, that depicts Ulysses efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war

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

In 1948, at the U S embassy in Zadestan, a young diplomat is ordered to find the missing daughter of an influential U S Senator

After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypts queen Cleopatra needs a new ally She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor Octavius

Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer DArtagnan

A four part documentary series that explores the many surprisingly unexamined aspects of the Reagan White House, and how Nancy Reagans paper doll image was at odds with the power she ultimately wielded throughout her husbands presi

In 1969, the Holden Caulfield obsessed Jamie Schwartz runs away from boarding school to find the reclusive author J D Salinger Inspired by actual events, Jamies search is a journey into the meaning of friendship, love and loss

Uncover one of the greatest and darkest deceptions of our time the conspiracy to cover up the Churchs true identity

When Warren Jeffs rose to Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, he took control of a religion with a history of polygamous and underage marriage In a short time, Warren managed to expand these practices and the

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterio

The assuming of responsibility by individuals, the use of science for man and not against him, the duty of truth to increase the stature of people, all together these are the important themes this movie debates in allegorical form

Actress Megan Fox has peeked behind the curtain of some of these ancient sites, igniting an insatiable curiosity to learn more about these lost worlds She embarks on an epic international journey to investigate and find answers to t

How Italys historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquered Sicily and Naples

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

While on holiday in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay

Tommy Tommy Trinder is called in to smooth things out after Wally King Chips Rafferty encroaches upon Aboriginal tribal ground