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A look at the Great Plague in London 1665 and a comparison to the spreading of the Covid 19 virus of today

This is a lengthy exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history, told through dramatised conversations between the main participants, particularly Cosimo de Medici and Brunelleschi Among its the

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch

A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embro

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

Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U S history

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news

Sonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when WW2 breaks out, rapidly getting attention from the Nazi officer Josef Terboven Shes then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes

The temporary physical life of the Biblical Savior, Jesus Christ

Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer

In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards

The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixons resignation

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s

Set during the Philippine American war, a short tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army his own treacherous countrymen

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father in law

A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New Yorks Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century

Apocalypse The Second World War2009 is a six part French documentary about the Second World War The documentary is composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters a

A young actor in modern day Hungary gets sent back to feudal times for a week, and tries to make the best of being a serf, while a wry reporter comments on the action, finally becoming more involved in it than he could have ever wished

A prophet who has the ability to interpret dreams is sold into slavery in Egypt, where people learn of his gifts

A band of soldiers must battle their way through Nazi territory to rescue a scientist that could help turn the tide of WWII

A gay activist attempts to raise H I V and A I D S awareness during the early 1980s

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean

The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F Kennedy and President Lyndon B Johnson, Robert McNamara

Risttuules is very emotional and tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on memories of Erna It all started 14th of June 1941 when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to train s

The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictators final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII

In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Gloria do Ribatejo, Joao Vidal will take on several high risk espionage missions that could change the course of Portuguese and world history

Pasolinis artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucers most erotic tales

Based on the classic didactic novel, the action centers on the noble lady who soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of the French court of the religious wars era

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaohs court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets

Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart

Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece