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The story of two warring generals Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty

Blending drama with the explanations of passionate historians and specialists, this enriched historical reconstruction traces 60 years in the life a man who transformed the Middle Ages and

Action packed and rewardingly strange

The 75 year history of the Hahnenkamm Race in Kitzbuhel, Austria, one of the most famous and dangerous World Cup races in alpine skiing, is illustrated

Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the reality of those victimized by the war In assumin

Powerful and deadly, all knowing, all seeing, they were the original Masters of the Universe,prepare for the original Game of Thrones

Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates

The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I R A prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle

This is an exciting, beautifully cinematic film offering a fresh look at Beethoven through the widely acclaimed performances and articulate insight of the great Leif Ove Andsnes

Has Antarctica served as a home base for extraterrestrial visitors to Earth for thousands of years As human exploration of the frozen continent increases, are we about to come face to face with both the ruins of an ancient advanced

A journey back to the 80s, to the origins of the video games industry, through the story of a group of teenagers in their quest to create the most original game

Follows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story

Between 1998 and 2005, a wave of murders targeting elderly women hit Mexico City, triggering the hunt for and capture of a most unlikely suspect

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries An aging American, Ambrose Old Gringo Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen Arroyo and meets Harriet Bi

Ian Hislops sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences from Victorians on the moon to 21st century deepfake, and Hislop as never seen before

The story of the struggle to create the television series, Star Trek The Next Generation 1987

A look at Vietnam from the perspectives of a U S Marine adviser, and a Vietnamese Marine who was left behind

Follows the passing of the FIFA baton through three association presidents Jules Rimet, Joao Havelange, and Sepp Blatter

A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F Buckley

A love story set during a tense encounter between a wagon train of settlers and a renegade Mormon group

A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare

Camel racing is a popular sport in the Middle East In past years, thousands of young boys have been trafficked from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mauritania and other countries to work as jockeys in the UAE under excruciating conditions Ov

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England As each murder is accomplis

The story of Ted Slauson, a contestant who gamed the rules of The New Price Is Right 1972 through extensive analysis and became a sensation on the game show

In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I

A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music From h

The Sultana was a river boat that exploded in 1865 killing many passengers, mostly Union Soldiers

Frictions develop when Yisroel Izzy Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art world iconoclast na

Timed with the 2020 womens suffrage centennial, American Masters Unladylike2020 The Changemakers takes a look at women whose courage and tenacity 100 years ago shaped the political life and future of this nation Their accomplish

National Geographic is invited to follow a team of restoration experts and archaeologists as they race against time to have the Aedicule restored before the Easter ceremonies

While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin free of Jews in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight

The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast on May 7, 1915

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

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

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

Gabo, The Magic of Reality is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel Garcia Marquezs life and work Gabo to all of Latin America with the narrative tension of