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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Year: 2003
Rome in the year AD 80. The history of the construction of the arena and of Verus. A man captured as slave becomes a gladiator and wins your freedom in the arena. We take a tour through...
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2003
59 min
Colosseum: Rome's Arena Of Death
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, History
Year: 2014
Theres a lot at stake on a few big slow brown rivers in the Deep South. The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin ACF is becoming the canary-in-the-coal mine for a looming East Coast water crisis. The Hanson brothers...
2014
51 min
Who Owns Water
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1991
This made for TV movie tells the story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. It begins in the 1930s when they met as actors under contract at RKO and ends with their divorce in 1960. In between...
1991
95 min
Lucy & Desi: Before The Laughter
Country: France, Belgium, Netherlands
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2021
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love...
2021
131 min
Benedetta
Genre: Documentary, History
Year: 2009
This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the...
2009
87 min
Vanishing Of The Bees
Year: 1980
Country doctor Samuel Mudd is unfairly punished by the U.S. Government after he unwisely shelters a wounded John Wilkes Booth during the night after Abraham Lincolns...
1980
145 min
The Ordeal Of Dr. Mudd
Genre: Drama, History
Year: 1971
The events surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 dramatized using simulated documentary...
1971
60 min
They've Killed President Lincoln!
Genre: History, Mystery
Year: 1993
Marcus Didius Falco must solve a murder set in Ancient...
1993
93 min
Age Of Treason
Country: United States, Iran
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Year: 2010
AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran 1953. Explores the blowback from this seminal event as well as the coups lingering effects on the present US-Iranian relationship. Includes a...
2010
98 min
American Coup
Country: United States, Italy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2020
Martin Scorsese reveals the story of a single performance in 1826 that forever changed Americas cultural landscape with the introduction of Italian opera to New York City -- an event Mozarts great librettist helped organize....
2020
63 min
The Oratorio
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
Year: 2012
A documentary that chronicles how a generation of artists thinkers and activists used their creativity as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define our culture in the...
2012
100 min
Let Fury Have The Hour
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Genre: Drama History Biography
The dramatic true story of C.S. Lewis’ journey from committed atheist to reluctant believer begins with his turbulent childhood. After losing his mother to cancer and becoming estranged from his father a young C.S. Lewis deems existence bleak and unfortunate. His tutelage under atheist William T. Kirkpatrick and his harrowing experiences in The Great War solidify his case for materialism...
The Most Reluctant Convert
Country: Republic of Macedonia, Czech Republic, United States
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Determined to build the best football club in the country Dimitry hires the German coach Rudolph Spitz to galvanize his rag tag team but - when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city and Rebecca the beautiful daughter of a...
113 min
The Third Half
In this award-winning documentary the first time directors take a detailed looks at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian...
Roadmap To Apartheid
Year: 2015
A tale of two brothers wrapped up in circumstances that could have only ever happened in...
2015
N/A
The Middle Ground
Genre: Biography, History, Western
A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T. Johnson a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West the Chisolm...
Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher
Country: Italy
Year: 1969
In 16th century Italy a young noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father leading to an uproar in the community and the Catholic...
1969
84 min
The Conspiracy Of Torture
Beverly Glenn-Copeland a Black transgender musician becomes a cult icon three decades after the release of his album Keyboard...
Keyboard Fantasies
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Year: 2004
Torture chambers acid vats greased chutes and gassing rooms were just some of the devices of death designed by the Torture Doctor H.H. Holmes in his castle of horrors. Follows Holmes entire life as a criminal...
2004
64 min
H.h. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer
Genre: Drama, History, War
Year: 1962
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949 the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission...
1962
125 min
Satan Never Sleeps
Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, History
Year: 2011
The story of one man entering the culture and character of Santa Claus for a single season. We follow Jack as he bleaches his hair and goes to Santa School. He tries to do everything that Santa is asked to do. He works as a...
2011
97 min
Becoming Santa 2011
Year: 2018
Filmed in homage to his original TV series this factual drama follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the Irelands comedy greats with just a whiskey a cigarette and...
2018
58 min
Dave Allen At Peace
Country: Mexico
In this dramatization the Virgin Mary works a miracle on a girl in 1623 Mexico. Four centuries later a family make a pilgrimage for their own...
Our Lady Of San Juan, Four Centuries Of Miracles
Year: 1997
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights...
1997
102 min
4 Little Girls
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History
Year: 1951
After being falsely accused of dishonesty a young man decides to become a...
1951
76 min
Double Crossbones
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
A 2 year look into the lives of New Jersey residents following Superstorm...
114 min
After Sandy
English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat...
111 min
The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
Year: 2019
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present...
2019
92 min
Brexit
A look into the inner workings of the NRA and its influence featuring interviews with government leaders NRA representatives and people whose lives have been personally touched by gun...
94 min
The Price Of Freedom
Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short, History
Year: 1978
A cinematic portrait of the fur trading teams that transported materials throughout much of the interior of 18th-19th century...
1978
1 min
Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs
Genre: Documentary, Short, History
Year: 1979
A short history of Canadas greatest sailing...
1979
2 min
Canada Vignettes: Bluenose 1921-1946
Year: 1963
Story of an ancient Assyrian queen that supposedly took place around 810...
1963
101 min
Slave Queen Of Babylon
Country: Israel, Germany
CENSORED VOICES combines raw original recordings of Israeli soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israels 1967 Six-Day War using archival newsreel footage as a stark reminder of how far the region remains from...
Censored Voices
Year: 1977
The Ford dynasty and the effects of the automobile on the history of North...
1977
57 min
Henry Ford's America
Year: 1957
During the Korean War retreat in 1951 a small British recon group is surrounded by Chinese troops and holds out in a lonely temple atop a...
1957
80 min
Hell In Korea
Country: United States, United Kingdom
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a...
152 min
The Last Duel
Country: Australia
Genre: Drama, History, Western
1857 the charismatic headman of the Chinese mining camp struggles to maintain the fragile harmony between Chinese and European diggers when a murdered European woman is discovered to have links to the Chinese...
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New Gold Mountain: Season 1
Year: 1949
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...
1949
134 min
Samson And Delilah 1950
Genre: Documentary, Fantasy, History
The history of fictional female heroes in Western media from Wonder Womans creation...
79 min
Wonder Women! The Untold Story Of American Superheroines
WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned the revolt fails but a second uprising is...
Ill Gotten Gains
A glimpse into infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci who has led the U.S. fight against every epidemic the country has faced from AIDS to SARS to Ebola and the ongoing...
104 min
Fauci
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1964
In the first of the Angélique 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...
1964
115 min
Angélique 1964
Genre: Adventure History Romance
Year: 1965
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1965
Merveilleuse Angélique
Genre: Drama History Thriller
Set against a backdrop of 1980s Lagos struggling under the weight of austerity measures and the infamous War Against Indiscipline. In ‘Swallow’ Kunle Afolayan opts for a retro film look that pays perfect homage to a nostalgic past and this cinematic masterpiece will take viewers on a memorable...
Swallow 2021
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 1939
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition...
1939
Hollywood Cavalcade
Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale Sir Richard Attenborough on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup detat must use his experience to defend those in his...
103 min
Guns At Batasi
Country: Italy, Soviet Union, United States
The true story of Ivan Sanchin the KGB officer who was Stalins private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictators death. Told from Sanchins view the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in...
137 min
The Inner Circle 1991
Country: Japan
The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup detat plotted against Tokugawa...
The Yagyu Chronicles 8: The One-eyed Ninja
Country: Italy, France
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the...
The Condemned Of Altona
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany, France
Genre: Action, History
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...
110 min
I Pirati Della Malesia
Year: 2001
In 1271 five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal...
2001
147 min
The Knights Of The Quest
A prisoner is tempted by the opportunity to escape during the Great Flood of...
Old Man
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Robert Greenwalds gripping and controversial documentary detailing the administrations march to war as seen through the eyes of countless experts. 2004 National Theatrical...
83 min
Uncovered: The War On Iraq
The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after...
16 Acres
Country: Hong Kong
Ying Ke-Feng head of Peerless Manor is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year however he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use...
Have Sword, Will Travel
Year: 2017
This is a story of how the courageous and selfless actions of one man can touch and inspire thousands. A documentary about Welles Remy Crowther who saved at least ten people on September 11 2001 at the cost of his own...
2017
85 min
Man In Red Bandana
Year: 1961
An orphan fights for the north in the Civil War then returns to his girlfriend in...
1961
108 min
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
Traces the origins and actions of World War I from the funeral of Britains King Edward VII to the Versailles...
The Guns Of August
His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japans military a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for...
190 min
The Human Condition Iii: A Soldier's Prayer
