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In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aubrey Powell

It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet - the Great Wall of China,...

Genre: History

Cast: William Lindesay

A story of the LGBT struggle from the 1960s to the present, after the Stonewall riot sparked the militant action in New York that was to spread...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bertrand Delanoë

Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephanie Leonidas

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Mason

What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aidan McArdle

From the far north of Canada to the southern tip of Chile, through the southern United States, central Mexico and the Brazilian Mato Grosso, new...

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The Glorious Story of Castles Carriers of myths and legends, castles strongly mark our imaginations, appearing most often as the pivot of a dark and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nick Mercer

Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lillian Michelson

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

Considered the finest example of Byzantine architecture in the world, Hagia Sophia was constructed on a scale unprecedented in human history. Built...

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A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eduard Benes

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Cast: Ériq Ebouaney

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adolf Hitler

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Corinna Waldbauer

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eva Sweeney

Using masterfully restored footage from recently declassified images, The Bomb tells a powerful story of the most destructive invention in human...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Adams

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but sure collapse of communist authoritarian rule in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arthur Franck

Were the eleven official witnesses—twelve if you include Joseph Smith himself—of the Book of Mormon reliable? What about the unofficial...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Wuthrich

The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...

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This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Carlyle

A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David McCullough

Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age. He...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Graham Hancock

From legendary John Ward, immortalized in fiction as Jack Sparrow, and English explorer Francis Drake; branded Pirates by their enemies but heroes by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billy Boyd

According to recent science the Neanderthals are not the knuckle-dragging apemen of popular imagination. In fact they are our distant ancestors....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ella Al-Shamahi

The Blues is a 2003 documentary film series produced by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to the history of blues music. In each of the seven episodes, a...

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In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bruno Solo

Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Campbell Scott

Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?

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Cast: Ananda Lewis

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The definitive story of the deadly 2004 tsunami as it travels from country to country, with unseen archive video and untold stories of survival.

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Examining the life and times of Adolf Hitler and following the full arc of his ascent, tyrannical reign, criminality and undoing.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adolf Hitler

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Cast: Elsa Lepoivre

This new series follows International teams of archaeologists on the front line, as they embark on a season of excavations to unravel the secrets of...

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Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

Explores the Third Reich from a contemporary perspective to investigate how the Nazis managed to conquer Germany and then half of Europe in the wake...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philipp Moog

Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucien Jean-Baptiste

Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical...

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Love, conflict, family - nobody's done it better. Acting legends reflect on the greatest writer who ever lived – and the dangerous, exciting...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Juliet Stevenson