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Revisiting the twisted lives of some of the most frightening, diabolical characters in recent history The stories trace the heinous, criminal acts of these elusive miscreants and the eventual road to justice

The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I R A prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle

The story of the engineers who worked tirelessly to keep the electric power running as the Titanic sank Their selfless actions kept the lights on and the electric lifeboat winches operational to facilitate the survival of others

The story of the pre war boxing champion Tadeusz Teddy Pietrzykowski, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created Auschwitz concentration camp

Our primal curiosity has sparked new inventions and revealed the mysteries of the universe This eight part mini series strives to trace the pivotal innovations that make us modern

A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt

A story of renowned Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck, and the love affair between her and a younger art critic Einar Reuter

The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire

The story of Nazi Germanys plundering of Europes great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

It centers on the hunt to catch the killer of three young women set in both 1973 and the early 2000s, contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early 2000s

Follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Franks family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II

The October 14, 1943, mass escape from the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in Poland is recounted through the firsthand accounts of survivors Thomas Blatt, Philip Bialowitz, Selma Engel Wijnberg and Semjon Rozenfeld

An aristocrat, Sarah has a cattle ranch in Australia Following death of her husband, a barons plots to take her land but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her ranch

The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen

A chronicle of the Bronte sisters battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language

The Tawara family, the last ninja clan It had abandoned its roots after an incident in the past, but now the family must take on the greatest crisis in Japanese history, one that threatens to shake the nation to its core

Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklins career At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco American alliance of 1778

Small town, England 1575 William embarks on a journey to prove the innocence of his wife, Twyla, falsely accused of being a witch and will be put to death if found guilty William must hunt down the real witch, to save Twyla fro

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years

The history of video games

The events of D Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view

The story of James J Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world

The retelling of Frances iconic but ill fated queen, Marie Antoinette From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life

Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese Robin Hood who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel

An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare knuckle fighter

Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then President George W Bushs military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers

Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India

A portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship

A drama about English settlers in America in 1617

Fed up with their Captains harsh discipline, a sailing ships crew decides to take action

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burmas democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris

Dramatized portrayal of the Apollo manned space program