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Country: United Kingdom, France
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1986
Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery...
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1986
125 min
The Mission
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, History
Year: 1993
A documentary of the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran...
1993
96 min
The War Room
Genre: Drama, History
Year: 1996
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights...
1996
130 min
Ghosts Of Mississippi
Country: Germany, India
Genre: Animation, Family, History
Year: 2006–
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2006–
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Little Amadeus
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Year: 2018
Two Fur Traders on the Run from Shoshone Indians Test the Bonds of...
2018
92 min
Iron Brothers
Country:
Genre: Biography | Documentary | History
Year: 2006
Documentary series examining the politics and intrigue surrounding historys most famous figures including Henry VIII Napoleon Bonaparte Peter the Great and Catherine the...
2006
Icons Of Power
Country: United Kingdom, Germany
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Year: 2019
Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility - albeit at great...
2019
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany, Monaco
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Romance
Year: 1959
A demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to...
1959
103 min
The Last Days Of Pompeii 1959
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short, Comedy, History
Year: 1968
Through several amusing live action and animated vignettes Saul Bass illustrates a fundamental and essential particularity of human nature that keeps us alive and the world turning...
1968
29 min
Why Man Creates
Country: France, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy, History
Year: 2016
Since the early days Jerry Lewis - in the line of Chaplin Keaton and Laurel - had the masses laughing with his visual gags pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis...
2016
61 min
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind The Clown
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1956
An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. But she is so convincing in her performance that even the biggest skeptics believe...
1956
105 min
Anastasia 1956
Country: Russia, France
Genre: Drama, History, War
Year: 1994
In the Soviet Union in 1936 shadow of Stalins repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense and all known that but a slow process of his lifes downfall is already...
1994
135 min
Burnt By The Sun
Country: United States, Hungary
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Year: 1995
During the 1980s Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the...
1995
Citizen X
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2015
With the help of a team of experts and the latest in 3-D scanning technology Alexander Armstrong along with Dr Michael Scott explores the hidden underground treasures that made Rome the powerhouse of the ancient...
2015
53 min
Rome's Invisible City
Genre: Documentary, History, War
The story of Nazi Germanys plundering of Europes great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the...
117 min
The Rape Of Europa
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England France and Germany and the country is on the brink of civil war only one man can lead the countrys strongest weapon the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter Frank...
151 min
Admiral
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 2001
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20 1942 senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called Final Solution to the Jewish Question can be best...
2001
Conspiracy 2001
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance, War
Year: 1954
While leading the Third Crusade King Richard the Lionheart George Sanders battles treachery in his own camp as well as the Saracens and their charismatic leader Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin Sir Rex...
1954
114 min
King Richard And The Crusaders
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
In 1713 Scotland Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats and faces charges of being a...
139 min
Rob Roy
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Year: 2020
A drama about the Novichok poisoning crisis in Salisbury in...
2020
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The Salisbury Poisonings: Season 1
Country: Italy, United States
One of WWIIs bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead. Four months and 30000 casualties before the Allies finally march to...
Anzio
Genre: History
Take strange occurrences weird events and unexplained happenings and put them all together. That is what you get with Beyond the Unknown. Each episode shows you something...
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Beyond The Unknown: Season 3
Genre: History, Western
Year: 1955
After purchasing Louisiana from France the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark assisted by a Shoshone guide to chart the new...
1955
108 min
The Far Horizons
Genre: Adventure, History
Year: 1951
Story of a revolt against England in 1830s...
1951
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Quebec
Country: Ukraine, United States
Genre: Action, Drama, History
The Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known. Its armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe. A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian...
The Rising Hawk
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2011
Apple. Intel. Genentech. Atari. Google. Cisco. Stratospheric successes with high stakes all around. Behind some of the worlds most revolutionary companies are a handful of men who...
2011
84 min
Something Ventured
Genre: Documentary, History, Mystery
Exploration of great archaeological discoveries fascinating ancient civilizations forgotten architectural marvels and tantalizing historical...
Unearthed (2016): Season 7
Year: 2010
2010
60 min
Spitfire Women
A visual history of the significance and impact of the Pop Art movement in the Sixties and...
90 min
Soupcans And Superstars: How Pop Art Changed The World
Genre: Adventure, History, War
Set during British India 1857 Captain Clayboune Rock Hudson is faced with restoring his reputation after being harshly disciplined for disobeying...
87 min
Bengal Brigade
The documentary-series examines Grants life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and...
E2
Grant: Season 1
Country: Hong Kong
Empress Dowager Cixi goes from just another pretty face in the harem of the concubines to the First Lady of Vice via various strategies and manipulations in a most-ambitious political conspiracy with spine-chilling...
100 min
Lover Of The Last Empress
Country: Canada, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
A confessional cautionary and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertsons young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music The...
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band
Country: Hungary
In 1849 the liberation war against the Habsburg Empire is close to its end in Hungary. Having hidden from military draft Barnabás leaves his hometown and walks across the country to find...
85 min
Guerilla
Country: United Kingdom, France, Germany
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Year: 2004
Dramatised documentary based on the experiences of the soldiers who invaded France in the D-Day Normandy Landings on 6 June 1944 which were instrumental in ending World War...
2004
120 min
D-day 6.6.1944
Country: Austria, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2012
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...
2012
Ludwig 2
Country: France
Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and...
176 min
Joan The Maid 2: The Prisons
A part of Joan of Arcs life. At the beginning Jeanne Joan has already left Domremy she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to the Dauphin. It ends during Jeannes first...
160 min
Joan The Maid 1: The Battles
Year: 1926
An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th...
1926
111 min
Old Ironsides
It is a new type of history show for a new type of audience: Big History delivered in an unadulterated hit of premium archive and jaw-dropping...
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History 101: Season 1
Country: Belgium
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
a team of Belgian resistance fighters kidnap a German submarine during WWII to bring Uranium needed for the Manhattan Project from Belgian Kongo to New...
102 min
Torpedo
Country: Australia, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
A royal woman living in rural Austria during the 18th century is forced to choose between her own personal happiness and the future of Russia when she marries an...
The Great: Season 1
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, News
The Silent Movie Theater has been screening the films of the silent era for over 65 years. It was almost lost to us completely when its previous owner Lawrence Austin was murdered in the...
80 min
Palace Of Silents
Year: 2013
Three teenagers risk their lives when they commit treason to spread the truth in Nazi Germany. Based on the true story of the Helmuth Hubener group the youngest German resistance fighters in World War...
2013
93 min
Resistance Movement
Country: Germany, Italy, United States, Czech Republic, France
The Old Testament story of Abraham and the trials he endures. Commanded by God to lead his family to the promised land of Canaan with the promise that if he does so his descendants will...
175 min
Abraham
The Queen Mary: Greatest Ocean Liner
Inventive documentary. Academic and childrens author Katherine Rundell examines the case of Thomas Clifton taken from the streets of London to work on stage his fathers fight to get him back and the law that allowed him to be...
59 min
Abducted: Elizabeth I's Child Actors
Country: South Korea
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Set in the 1940s when Korea was under Japanese occupation. Korean people were banned from speaking their own language during that time. Pan Soo has been imprisoned several times and it is...
The Secret Mission
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay traces the origins of Industrial music taking you on a journey through the crumbling industrial cities of Europe to Americas thriving avant-garde...
52 min
Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay
Country: United States, Spain
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Noreno a half-Roman is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia swarming with Parthian patrols to seek help for his slowly dying...
The Legion
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1990
Embarrassed by his large nose a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by...
1990
137 min
Cyrano De Bergerac 1990
Genre: History | War
During the Northern Wei Dynasty Mulan joined the army for his father and returned with honor. Ten years later Rouran broke the border again and Mulan resolutely returned to the...
Unparalleled Mulan
Country: United States, Portugal
A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanitys moral...
89 min
And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead
Country: Hong Kong, China, British Virgin Islands
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Year: 2007
Set in China in the 1860s during the Taiping Rebellion the story is based on the assassination of Ma Xinyi in 1870. Loyalist General Qingyun is the only survivor of a battle with...
2007
126 min
The Warlords
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Dau. Nora Mother
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Year: 1975
Neer-do-well Captain Harry Flashman Malcolm McDowell is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck Oliver Reed into impersonating a...
1975
Royal Flash
Genre: History, Drama
One of the most important figures of Korean royal history King Sejong develop a 20-year relationship with engineer and inventor Jang Yeong-sil a truly remarkable scientist based on their common interest in...
132 min
Forbidden Dream
Year: 2017
Art historian Dr Janina Ramirez and angler John Bailey go in search of the origins and ethos of the 18th-century English Landscape movement along a 12-mile stretch of the River...
2017
In Search Of Arcadia
Country: United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, United States
Filmed over four years Concerto - A Beethoven Journey follows world-class pianist Leif Ove Andsnes as he attempts to understand and interpret one of the greatest sets of works for piano...
Concerto: A Beethoven Journey
