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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

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

The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage, known as the spiritual father of the Striptease show, now has Alzheimers at 76 Although his memory plays tricks on him, his daughter Emmanuelle goes back in time to portray a direct cinema fil

Trinh T Minh ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contra

The story of Queen Victoria from her coronation, focused on her meeting and marriage to Prince Albert and the way they established shared responsibilities until his death

The nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of 669 children just before the outbreak of WWII

Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how the country developed through the eyes of the Jews, Iraqs first wave of refugees From picnics on the Tigris and royal balls, to hangings, imprisonment

The American Experience looks at Hebert Hoovers American Relief Administration and its efforts to distribute food during the Great Russian Famine of 1921

In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne

Sir Doug amp The Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove tells the story of Doug Sahm, the wild man musicians musician and unsung hero of Texas music A country music child prodigy and teenage rhythm amp blues dynamo who caused a riot at his San

A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond

Two aging fathers one a King, one his courtier reject the children who truly love them Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble

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

Follows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story

On March 1st, 2020, New York recorded its first COVID 19 case Nine weeks later, 12 health care professionals were asked to share their experiences fighting a new kind of war no one could have prepared them for

A revolution changes the social and political landscapes of a country, but first and foremost it changes the physical landscape For centuries none of the city centers of the world capitals looked nothing like the Maidan in the

The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France

The story of what happens in between where we are born and who we decide to be, the only place we can really call home

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

HBO biopic about the infamous mad monk Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia

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

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The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments In HD

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

In 1939, Professor Paul Langford and his daughter Catherine are still grappling with the mysteries of the ancient relic they discovered in the Egyptian desert more than ten years ago With war looming in Europe and funding running

Paris, summer 1942 Irene is Jewish and French She is 19 and living a life of passions Her friendships, her new love, her desire to be an actress Nothing suggests that Irenes time is running out

Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, Sharpes Waterloo brings maverick British officer Lt Col Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815 Sharpe is assigned

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as hes torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a brood sow, he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place

Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs

American Pain traces the rise and fall of twin bodybuilders from Florida who become the kingpins of the largest oxycodone trafficking network in US history

Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Gori

A Dutch exploration team sets sail to find the North East passage to the Indies The weather had other ideas for them

One of 12 Westerns made in 12 months during 2020, The Wilderness Road tells the story of the most notorious land pirates who stalked the Southeast during the turn of the 19th century Samuel Mason Creek Wilson, a Revolutionary W

In this meticulously researched documentary, filmmaker Mark Hall traces the origins of sushi in Japan to its status today as a cuisine that has spawned a lucrative worldwide industry

A documentary that looks at the well known case, which is largely regarded as the greatest unsolved heist in American history