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A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth

A TUBA TO CUBA follows New Orleans famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have bee

When Harvard Ph D student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot

The War ended on August 15th, 1945 What took place in Japan on the previous night The unknown destiny of the day is unveiled

Vidocq escapes captivity 1805 Years later, hes a fabric merchant in Paris with an alias He makes a deal of amnesty for catching criminals He builds an efficient team of ex cons to catch or kill them

Using footage from three separate interviews, Werner Herzog converses with Mikhail Gorbachev, former General Secretary of the U S S R, about three of his key achievements negotiations with the U S to reduce nuclear weapons cessation of Soviet control

The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth Sissi of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe

One of WWIIs bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead Four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome

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

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

A documentary about a 10 year old transgender girl who finds acceptance and empowerment in the company of a queer roller derby collective

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

The Hydra is a fast paced suspense thriller and feature documentary about the sudden rise of ecstasy in Europe to epidemic levels after the disintegration of the Soviet Union

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

An animated film based on the novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtain

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment Who is responsible

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

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

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale Anna Neagle, the young 19th century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing Travel

During 1962s Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U S Soviet chess match and a deadly game of espionage

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 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

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome

The story of General Romeo Dallaires frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors

Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes

Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for mutual respect and common ground It is the story of Francis of

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

MATTHEWS tells the incredible true story of the life and career of a man considered by many to be the greatest soccer player of all time, Sir Stanley Matthews

As WWII comes to an end, a group of Buchenwalds emaciated prisoners risk their lives for the safety of the camps youngest inmate a four year old Auschwitz born Jewish prisoner Is there a future for the Buchenwald boy