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Kandahar Journals is the story of a photojournalist who reflects on the events behind his psychological transformation after covering front line combat in Kandahar, Afghanistan from 2006 to 2010 April 2006 Photojournalist Louie Pal

Based on the best selling religious studies book by Joseph Atwill, this documentary shows that Jesus is not a historical figure, the events of Jesus life were based on a Roman military campaign, his supposed second coming refers to

Forensic experts scan Pompeiis victims to investigate why they didnt escape the eruption

National Geographic is invited to follow a team of restoration experts and archaeologists as they race against time to have the Aedicule restored before the Easter ceremonies

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia He realizes he is watched and followed One day, he is arrested and jailed in solitary confinement, and tortured mentally during the investigation will

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

Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this factual drama follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the Irelands comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and

The story of one man entering the culture and character of Santa Claus for a single season We follow Jack as he bleaches his hair and goes to Santa School He tries to do everything that Santa is asked to do He works as a sidewalk

A Joan of Arcs trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English Filmed in a spare, low key fashion

Two stories separated by 1400 years After losing his mother in the midst of a war torn country, an Iraqi child, learns the importance and power of patience by discovering the historical story of Lady Fatima and her suffering

The origin of desert rock music is a feature length documentary about the Californian desert rock and punk rock scene, from which bands like Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age arose to kick off its worldwide fame

In 1161, Wanyan Liang, emperor of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, planned to invade the Southern Song Dynasty Owing to the harsh recruitment policy and the Jins cruelty, people in the Central Plain found it hard to live on Xin Qiji, aged

The story of how Deion Sanders played an NFL game for the Atlanta Falcons in between two MLB games for the Atlanta Braves in a twenty four hour window

A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society

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

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

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944

An investigation into Native American filmmaker Harjos family history, namely the mysterious 1962 disappearance of his grandfather and the songs of encouragement sung by those who searched for him

Tracing the movement to breed a better American race, which turned the science of heredity into an instrument of social control that led to forced sterilization campaigns

A journey back to the 80s, to the origins of the video games industry, through the story of a group of teenagers in their quest to create the most original game

Gaspar de Carvajal, a Dominican, has not seen his family since the age of 10 when he was sent away to pursue the religious life He attends the funeral of his father, where he notices that the body was washed, then buried in a shr

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

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After his king dies, a horseman must sacrifice himself to serve his ruler in the afterlife but sudden distractions lead to unexpected tragedy

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she cant get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help

a look at the famous music festival

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

April 1940 The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hiters war machinery Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat

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

Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events

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

A documentary on Jacques Verges, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy

Henry IV is dead and Hal is King With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people Laying claim to parts of France and following an insult from

They grew up under the Nazi regime They pledged to give their lives for Hitler They were fanatics who would not be stopped They were the 20,000 teenagers who made up the 12th SS Panzer Division Unleashed in France to halt the

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