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In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain

In the beginning of 1500s, during the Portuguese conquests on Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Arabian Gulf, a village on the edge of sea revolts against the Portuguese rule and conquer after years of oppression, In pursuit of freedom

An intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10 year old Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, struggling to balance his traditional ArrernteGarrwa upbringing with a state education

Relive an unspeakable tragedy detailed with unforgettable images, videos, and recordings only recently rediscovered

A quick look at the slums of Nairobi, Guatemala City, and Manila

In 1917, the starving population of Russia overthrew the Tsar and established a Government Later that same year, with the Government proving unpopular, they too were overthrown by a Bolshevik led uprising

Intimate portrayal of the events captured by the ordinary people on September 11

Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale Sir Richard Attenborough, on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup detat, must use his experience to defend those in his care

In Roman dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that hes actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar When Petronius daughter

As a kid in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez watched her tight knit community become a burned out ruin as an epidemic of fires raged through her Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood As Vivian seeks to understand the la

An extravagant odyssey from Communism to Capitalism as seen from the perspective of one of Romanias most charismatic symbols, the Dacia automobile

The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives

The story of legendary Kunjali Marakkar IV and his epic warfare against the Portuguese

The Paw Project chronicles the David and Goliath story of a tiny grassroots movement taking on big veterinary corporations in an effort to ban the de clawing of cats

A chronicle about how the Lakota Indians fight to reclaim control of the Black Hills Will investigate how the sacred land was stolen in violation of treaty agreements and feature interviews with Indigenous citizens

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard How a horrific incident of racial violence became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in W

Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the Nazi occupation of Antwerp

Over seventy five years ago Russias last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event

A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact

Philip Vincent built the fastest and most glamorous motorcycles in the world yet he ended his days in poverty Some 40 years after he died, one of his machines sold for over 1 million This is his untold story

True story of the sinking of the U S S Indianapolis, its crews struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captains scape goat court martial

The stories of Gideon and Samson from chapters 6 8 and 13 16 of The Book of Judges

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

Documentary showing the history of the world famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the impact it still has on people and the state of liberty as a personal and political concept in America in 1985

When former Afghan Refugee Muzafar Ali, discovers that Afghans have been an integral part of Australia for over 160 years, he begins to photograph their descendants in a search to define his own new Afghan Australian identity The

The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War No words No music Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city

Farah and Issa, two streetwise children living in Beiruts Palestinian Shatila refugee camp, use their imaginations and creativity to come to terms with the realities of growing up in a refugee camp that has survived massacre, sie

As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years ear

When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts

The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which have become a powerful status symbol in booming China

A rapid fire history of our world, from the beginning of time as we know it to present day This two hour CGI driven special delves into the key turning points the formation of earth,

With his true love captured by the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, the legendary Robin Hood and his crew of outlaws execute a daring rescue to save her

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive