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The career of Revolutionary War naval hero from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia

An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was invited to South Africa in 1893 to settle a case for a wealthy Indian settled there He expected to return in a few months but instead got involved in the freedom movement and eventually stayed for 21 y

On the H M S Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second in command Lieutenant Scott Padget, whose heavy handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny

In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeons apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians

In 1820 Louisiana, river pirates tangle with plantation owners while gambling ship pirate queen Lili Scarlet falls in love with planter Andre Tulane to the dismay of rival Hugo Marat, leader of the river pirates

In league with the Saxon invaders, Edmund of Cornwall plans to slay King Arthur, marry his daughter and usurp the throne of England but wizard Merlin and outlaw Robert Marshall stand in the way

Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign

A Scottish knight in France to facilitate a marriage between a rich and beautiful countess and his aging uncle becomes involved in court intrigue

During the First World War, a female German spy Fraulein Doktor and her team of saboteurs plan to kill Lord Kitchener, obtain the Allied defense plans and steal the new French mustard gas formula

A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba

Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada

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

The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois

In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitlers close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their t

The World War II story of the Royal Navys effort to defeat Nazi Germanys most powerful warship

In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom

Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians

Finding the Funk is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music Starting with Funks roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the 60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly amp the Family Stone, then to

The lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo Japanese War

An examination of how President Abraham Lincoln used contemporary telecommunications to his maximum advantage in the American Civil War

A tour of the juke joints and other venues of the legendary Chitlin Circuit in the Mississippi Delta, including performances by aging blues musicians in their eighties who used to play the circuit

A documentary about how video games are made, marketed, and consumed by looking back at gaming history and culture through the eyes of game developers, publishers, and consumers

Blending drama with the explanations of passionate historians and specialists, this enriched historical reconstruction traces 60 years in the life a man who transformed the Middle Ages and

Timed with the 2020 womens suffrage centennial, American Masters Unladylike2020 The Changemakers takes a look at women whose courage and tenacity 100 years ago shaped the political life and future of this nation Their accomplish

Action packed and rewardingly strange

Exclusive access to the Grammy Award winning artist to celebrate her career

John Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican American War faces anti immigrant and anti Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career

An exclusive backstage pass into a fascinating underground world of alternative Christmas music Starring an eclectic cast of characters The Flaming Lips, Run DMC, John Waters plus two dozen amazing and original songs, JINGLE BEL

Royal Marines defend Government House from Argentine invaders during the events that triggered the Falklands War

Rudiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed

Baratometrajes 2 0 is a more than a documentary that radiograph the cinema in Spain, giving a lead role and voice to filmmakers of low budget films, to cultural promoters which make things differently, and to distribution and ex

Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera

A story about a group of soldiers last days before the battle of the Somme in 1916