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An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccios Decameron

A historical epic inspired by the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries

The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions

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 dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history

12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 911 under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine

Throughout history, Vikings waged war from the seas, notoriously ruthless and with their own set of rules

A periodical fiction based on the 7th century Pandiyan prince Ranadheeran who ruled during a time when the Chola dynasty lost its power and its people were forced to live in the woods

A small team of U S soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea

A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War

Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village a hotbed of gossip and on going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by adherence to colorful traditions and deep rooted patriarchy

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

The series focuses on the rise and fall of Mughal Empire through generations from Babur to Aurangzeb

In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, Marco Polo is based on the famed explorers adventures in Kublai Khans court in 13th century Mongolia

Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue

Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas and skies

The story of Marie Laure, a blind French teenager, and Werner, a German soldier, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II

Sir Francis Hamilton, ambassador of King Charles II, sails from England to Jamaica where he has to sign a peace treaty with France On the way to the Carribean his ship is attacked by a band of pirates, headed by the dreadfully re

The story of how one of the worlds most popular video games found its way to players around the globe Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the mas

160 elite U S soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis

The ruthless Rodrigo Borgia intends to become Pope and will not let anything stand in his way

The life and rise of Livia Drusilla, the powerful wife of the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar

As the end of WWII approaches, diehard Nazi forces fight to the end to stop Allied armies from freeing Europe

WWE Superstars past and present reveal their compelling stories about the most important moments in WWE history

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941

In Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population

Dr Jon Henderson explores the viking conquest of Scotland

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

In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan Lise Leplat Prudhomme leads the army of the King of France When she is captured, the Chur

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight year old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences

A chronicle of the decade long hunt for al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S E A L s Team 6 in May 2011

Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty

This documentary tells the story of the 1999 London bombings that targeted minority communities, and the race to find the far right extremist behind them

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate His wife departs at the arri