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Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening

When a high ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out Trouble is, he doesnt want to be rescued

WEST AFRICA 1869 Slave trade is illegal There is a revolt on a slave ship twenty four men fight for their lives Out gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940 He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jackson Jackson befriends a young

A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson

An account of Orson Welles 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished

What has Nasa been hiding from us beyond the visual spectrum

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanitys moral survival

Judas meets Jesus and at first doesnt know what to make of him or whether or not to trust him A cynical city boy, Judas makes fun of the country bumpkin disciples who follow Jesus but

Grain Media and Burn Energy Drink tell the story of snowboarding through the eyes of the people who made it happen From its origins in the culturally shifting 1960s, to its boom in the 90s, to its acceptance as a mainstream sport, s

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas

The Iliads story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre revolutionary era

A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia

The intertwining fates of the historical figures, the men and the women of the 1789 French revolution, as they meet at the newly established Assemblee Nationale

They were criminals, some of them even torturers and mass murderers High ranking National Socialists and fascists were allegedly since 1945 on the run from the justice of the Allies But

The vaquita, the worlds smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the cocaine of the sea Environmental activists, Mexica

Who was General Tso, and why are we eating his chicken This feature documentary explores the origins and ubiquity of Chinese American food through the story of an iconic sweet and spicy chicken dish

Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U S Federal Reserve has never been greater Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairmans every word Yet the average person kn

A three part story of Norways worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norways political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case

In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity

Life in Hiroshima, following different Japanese, a German priest and church, and some American POWs, before and after the atomic bomb was dropped August 6, 1945

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to take up arms against the invaders, leading

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans This feature documentar

Amid the Civil War in 17th century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the

During the fourteenth century when the Hundred Years War between France and England ends with the English occupation of French Aquitainia, rebel French Knights vow to oust Edward, Prince of Wales, ruler of Aquitaine

Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for Indias freedom from England

Two mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome

In an oil scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy What no one expected was that a tiny Native community living down the river from Canadas tar sands

A young man, separated from his family in World War II, disguises himself as a Nazi S S Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts

An examination of the causes of the economic crisis of 2008

Hammerfest Norway is the northernmost city in the world A tough place at the Arctic Circle, where in winter the sun doesnt rise and during the summer it doesnt set for months A place

A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history

The story of Fok Yun Gap also know as Hou Yuan Chia one of Chinas greatest martial artists

Harald Edelstam uses his position as Swedens ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochets 1973 coup detat

A portrait of the artist L S Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion

An innocent womans search for her missing sister leads her into the infamous world of Marquis de Sade In a test of wills and wits, she must follow him to his chateau of sin to discover her sisters fate and to determine her own

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland

After her banishment from Rome, Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman ruled native land of Galilee, where prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salomes parents, King Herod and Queen Herodias

Boudica, the Warrior Queen on Britain, leads her tribe into rebellion against the Roman Empire and the mad Emperor of Rome Nero

An unemployed American worker, a Tea Party activist, and a Chinese solar entrepreneur race to lead the clean energy future But who wins and who loses the battle for power in the 21st century

During the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet occupied Budapest

A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning Gods intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge