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Munich The Edge of War 2021 Based on the international bestseller by Robert Harris It is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlains government desperately seeks a peaceful solution With the pressure building, Hugh Leg

Apollo 11 (2019) A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked off their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his uncle's farm and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life - Hopefully.

15 Minutes of War (2019) In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The GIGN is sent on the spot, after 30 hours of tension a rescue operation is organized.

Fellinis Casanova (1976) Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?

Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975) France, 1719. Four years after Louix XIV's death, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent for the nine-year-old Louis XIV. Philippe is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a li

Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde (2013) A documentary that chronicles a cowboy's triumph in his quest to protect wild horses and the American West.

Challenger: The Final Flight (2020) Four-part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans.

The Libertine (2004) In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl

Kagemusha (1980) When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.

The Tesla Files 2018 Researcher Marc Seifer, astrophysicist Travis Taylor and investigative journalist Jason Stapleton investigate the mysteries surrounding the life and work of Nikola Tesla, one of the most important and eccentric scientists in history

War and Peace (2007 ) A Russian Prince experiences battle against Napoleon and a troubled relationship with his father and wife. Finds acceptance of her death and eventually his chance of true love. A spoiled, high-society fickle young woman loves and her years of unhappiness. A Count illegitimate,

China Beach (19881991) Dateline: November 1967, within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach. This is the 'Nam, filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen Mc Murphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, in the forms of nurses,

The Sea Hawk (1940) Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes a Spanish ship and when he comes aboard he finds Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal. He is overwhelmed by her beaut

No Surrender (2018) An Egyptian police officer named General Yousef al-Masri lives in Karamouz neighborhood in Alexandria. The film dates back to the reign of King Farouk before the 1952 revolution in the ...

Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019) By June 1942, the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positioned off the coast of Midway, tasked with ...

The Dig (2020) An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingha

Pilgrimage (2017) In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril.

Studio 54 (2018) Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize and entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New Yo

Johnny Tremain (1957) In colonial Boston, a young silversmith's apprentice injures his hand, and finds himself befriended by the Sons of Liberty and caught up in events of the American Revolution.

Tells the true life story of Sara Guralnick, a 13 year old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942 After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friends identity and finds refuge in a small village where she is taken in by a farm

Raiders of the Lost Past (2012 ) A series of documentaries exploring modern efforts to solve historic mysteries.

The Dam Busters (1955) The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.

Hotel Rwanda (2004) During the 1990s, some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people we

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali (2021) Tells the extraordinary story behind the friendship of two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century: Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. Few people understand the bond these men shared. The charismatic and outspoken Olympic champion who charmed the natio

Marie Antoinette (1938) The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would like to be a locksmith. Marie discovers

Captain Blood (1935) Arrested during the Monmouth Rebellion and falsely convicted of treason, Dr. Peter Blood is banished to the West Indies and sold into slavery. In Port Royal, Jamaica the Governor's daughter Arabella Bishop buys him for £10 to spite her uncle, Col. Bishop who owns a major plan

The Alamo (1960) In 1836, General Santa Anna and the Mexican Army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders Colonel William Travis to defend a small mission on the Mexicans' route at all costs. Travis

Sin 2019 Florence, early XVI century Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti Alberto Testone is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Juli

Einstein and Eddington (2008) Sir Arthur Eddington is a renowned physicist at Cambridge University and an expert in the measurement of the physical world. He along with all of his colleagues are also avowed Newtonians. Sir Oliver Lodge suggests that he read a new thesis put forward by a German-Swiss

The Physician (2013) When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of 11th-century London to small villages throughout England and finally to

Modern historians, equipped with state of the art technology and newly discovered evidence, rewrite the nations most iconic stories

Guernica (2016) The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.

Treasure Island (2012) Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can sucessfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew.

Masquerade - Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner (Lee Byung-Hun) secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. He comes to bring a sword, not peace, he says. He's in a hurry, moving from place to place near the Sea of Galilee,

Il gattopardo 1963 In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina the Leopard and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormous

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions

The Killing Fields (1984) Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind hi

Colette (2018) Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

Joyeux Noel (2005) In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each ot

Blanche (1971) Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.

Gloria 2021 A Small Village in Ribatejo, became an unlikely Cold War stage where American and Soviet forces fought through dangerous sabotage maneuvers to achieve control of Europe At the center of this story is Joao Vidal, a young man from a family with connections in the Portuguese Fascist Regime,

After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayal, deception, and romantic turmoil Inspired by real events

The English Game (2020 ) The story of the invention of football and how it quickly rose to become the world's most popular game by crossing class divides.

The World at War (19731976) A multi-volumed documentary mini-series, "The World at War" covers the entire history of World War II from the causes of the 1920s to the aftermath of the Cold War in the 1950s. Emphasis is also placed on several inside story episodes, where events are covered w