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Once with the Stasi, always with the Stasi Once you were in the agent controllers grasp you could never escape thats what they say, anyway Writer Paul Gratzik was an unofficial informer for the GDR State Security Service for tw

The story of how the 22 year old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street 1960

Gonzalo is a farmer living with his family in a small village in Castile, in the north of Spain The ancient and sage tradition of producing their food, from the slaughter of a pig to his own wine, has worked very well for him at

Two aging fathers one a King, one his courtier reject the children who truly love them Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble

Author Thomas Penn takes an extraordinary journey into the dark and chilling world of the first Tudor King, Henry VII From his victory over Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, to his secret death and the succession of his son

A revolution changes the social and political landscapes of a country, but first and foremost it changes the physical landscape For centuries none of the city centers of the world capitals looked nothing like the Maidan in the

Exploring the archetype of the witch in Hollywood cinema from the 1930s to the present and how it is linked to the social history of female power

Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and following them over the course of a year as they embark upon personal and profound journ

Eric Liddell Chinas first gold medalist and one of Scotlands greatest athletes returns to war torn China

The zombified leaders of the free world rise from the dead to hunt down a group of ill fated teens and give them a lethal lesson in American history Their only hope for survival is to summon the demonic spirit of John Wilkes Booth

During the Tang Dynastys during the era of Zhen Guan era name during rule of Emperor Taizong, the young Xuan Zang monk, in his quest for the knowledge in Buddhism, embarked on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils and

A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U S Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida

Caviar Dreams is a fish farm to table journey through the history, culture, and significance of one of the worlds most iconic delicacies

Eddie Izzard stars in this funny, moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little known team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War

When a Japanese pilot crash lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Niihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the locals until they discover he was part of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor

A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel, the 93 year old style maven who has had an out sized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, from legendary late 88 year old documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles

Terry Jones guides us through the history and the nature of the economic boom bust cycle and why people repeatedly ignore it to their sorrow

From Toms Shoes to international adoptions, from solar panels to U S agricultural subsidies, drawing from over 200 interviews filmed in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc unearths an uncomfortable side of charity we can no longer ignore

The site of the famous Oracle, Delphi spanned two great c

Landfill is a documentary that emerged from the perception of a paradox in relation to litter While most people want to get rid of it, I met some ladies, pioneers of recycling, that they

A brief yet comprehensive documentary overview of the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenins Ulyanov family, from the terrible acts and subsequent hanging of his brother to his own hunger for a revolution

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

A Documentary of the everyday life of a medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles, CA

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

Documentary of 1980s near launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlossers award winning book of the same name

As America prepares to enter WW2, Hungarian film director Michael Curtiz grapples with political intervention and a dysfunctional relationship with his estranged daughter amid the troubled production of Casablanca in 1942

Journalist C J Hunts global quest for a solution to the obesity epidemic and diet related disease It explores modern dietary science, previous historical findings, ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evol

Set during British India 1857, Captain Clayboune Rock Hudson is faced with restoring his reputation after being harshly disciplined for disobeying orders

Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign

During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people

The last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate

When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the groups Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past

The story of Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic, from his struggles for Dominican independence to his exile at Venezuela in the final years of his life

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s From the military coup in Brazil to Chinas Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring

An all star cast from Daiei Film Company has made the ultimate Jirocho movie about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area