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Mara and her husband Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines Much to their regret, they have not been able to have children One day, a mysterious stranger appe

Explores the rise of fashion designer Christian Dior, as he dethrones Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his iconic imprint of beauty and influence

Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence

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

Peter Wildebloods affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly during the time homosexuality was a crime and the devastating consequences of their relationship

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

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U S Civil Wars first all black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates

A down to earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic

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

A look alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers theres more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story

A fallen warrior rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master

1183 A D King Henry IIs three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he wont commit to a choice They and his wife variously plot to force him

A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospitals emergency room

This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th centurys most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the worlds attention for nearly 50 years

Admiral Yi Sun sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang

When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it

A dramatization of Nazi Germanys final Western Front counterattack of World War II

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as issues of the past emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers

A retrospective look at the life and work of influential electronic music DJ, Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM

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

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

A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly

The story of Easy Company of the U S Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V J Day

Nostradamus prophecies are interpreted alongside messages from ancient cultures about galactic alignment and the end of the world

A terrorist cell takes three Americans hostage and threatens to expose a secret that will shatter Americas soul

The history of the independent film company, The Cannon Film Group, Inc

A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer

The life of Madelyn Murray OHair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists

Fed up with their Captains harsh discipline, a sailing ships crew decides to take action

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant