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In 1959, a working class government employee in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home To his

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts

Grain Media and Burn Energy Drink tell the story of snowboarding through the eyes of the people who made it happen From its origins in the culturally shifting 1960s, to its boom in the 90s, to its acceptance as a mainstream sport, s

In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he cant adjust to peacetime life

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

In 1969, the Holden Caulfield obsessed Jamie Schwartz runs away from boarding school to find the reclusive author J D Salinger Inspired by actual events, Jamies search is a journey into the meaning of friendship, love and loss

In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure

In the first of the Angelique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer

With more than 2000 album credits to his name, 2015 Grammy Nominee Nathan East is one of the most recorded bass players of all time His sound is legendary and hes the most famous musician you dont know

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him But a man refuses to bow to the German Count

Documentary leading up to, during and after the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City Features interviews with athletes, including John Carlos, Tommie Smith and George Foreman, activist Dr Harry Edwards, journalists and archival

The remarkable story of the Mount St Helens volcanic eruption of 1980 told by first hand witnesses who survived and using rare remastered archive material

In Paris during the summer of 1914 a succession of brief liaisons begins and ends with a soldier and a tart, but on the way moves humourously and sometimes poignantly through a fascinating panorama of society and of attitudes to love

Rudiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed

The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage, known as the spiritual father of the Striptease show, now has Alzheimers at 76 Although his memory plays tricks on him, his daughter Emmanuelle goes back in time to portray a direct cinema fil

Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jeronimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro and becomes an accomplished government offi

A quick look at the slums of Nairobi, Guatemala City, and Manila

Louis Napoleon III Claude Rains takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg Brian Aherne to add Mexico to his empire

The life story of the highly influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius

The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War

An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of twenty two thousand Polish officers during World War II A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years

Capitao, a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group

A comedy about a small New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles legendary 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which led millions of listeners to believe the U S was being invaded by Martians

A young boy struggles on his own in a run down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression era Midwest

The story of the assassination of U S Senator Robert F Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty two people in the hotel, whose lives were never

British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill Sir Michael Gambon suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a secret from the rest of the world

It will tell the complete story of this most audacious of missions, with footage not seen anywhere else The archives reveal the incredible lengths an army of engineers, scientists and astronauts

Documentarian Dinesh DSouza analyzes the history of the Democratic Party and what he thinks are Hillary Clintons true motivations

A journalist afflicted with the underresearched debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome embarks on a quest to find out why the CDC and medical system have neglected his disease and left millions sidelined from life

Who were the men and women of the Apollo Space Program Where are they today What do they think of the extraordinary effort they helped make possible Half a century later, Project Apollo remains the single greatest initiative in pe

In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization with the strong support of a Democratic President and Republican Congress Before the ink was dry on this free trade agreement, China began flooding U S markets with illegally subsi

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

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

A journey through Mongolia, Japan, China and South Korea, narrated by the journals of Finnish linguist, diplomat and journeyman G J Ramstedt 1873 1950

High Relief began as a documentary about Amendment 2 in Florida While filming, the director had his first seizure and was diagnosed with epilepsy The film shows the pros and cons of

Interviews and archival footage are used to tell the story of post war Broadway through the 1960s