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Documentary about North Korea, set in the future after the regime has collapsed Harnessing the power of hindsight the film questions the morality of the current inaction by regional and global powers towards the North Korean dictato

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German Could one of the prisoners be a spy

A prisoner is tempted by the opportunity to escape during the Great Flood of 1927

The movie is based on a real historic event During Frenchs invading war against China in 1885, the French army took over Zhengnan Guan located in the Guangxi Province Wishing to protect their beloved country, the 70 years old Gene

A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East

Lyndon B Johnson aligns himself with John F Kennedy, rises to the Presidency, and deals with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s

In occupied France, German run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get in between the wolfs teeth and avoid being che

From PBS HRH The Prince of Wales reveals an extraordinary treasure trove of rarely seen art by members of the Royal Family past and present, exploring a colorful palette of intimate family memory and observation

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

In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion of the people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party

Has Antarctica served as a home base for extraterrestrial visitors to Earth for thousands of years As human exploration of the frozen continent increases, are we about to come face to face with both the ruins of an ancient advanced

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

A docu drama that follows Manoel de Oliveiras life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal

Challenger Disaster Lost Tapes follows the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, specifically Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian to be launched into space McAuliffe was a

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be Seediq Bale or real

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A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the country of Israel is being created

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 fearless warrior An epic love story Witness the grand saga of Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan

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

The mysteries surrounding her fathers death in the Vietnam war lead ultra endurance mountain biker Rebecca Rusch on an emotional journey as she pedals 1200 miles of the Ho Chi Minh trail

The roots of gospel music extend back to a time when to have a voice meant having a freedom no one could silence As the river of gospel music flourished, its influence fed many musical tributaries whose resonance rings true to 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

Follow up to 2014s The Admiral Roaring Currents, which explores the historic Battle of Hansan Island

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

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The Seventies A quest for spirituality and sexual freedom In England, young Hugh Milne hears the voice of spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an audiotape and travels to India in search of his own self

An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye

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

A young slave girl, Anna, is rescued and adopted by Christians in 2nd Century Smyrna and befriended by their aged bishop, Polycarp As Anna is taught by Polycarp and her new family, she struggles to reconcile her beliefs with thos

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

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

Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming The informant is his partners father

Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador Now, the diplomats life hangs in the balance helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate and his fear of the captors themselves

Francos Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past