Armada: 12 Days to Save England
Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of…
Perfect Storms: Disasters That Changed The World
Investigates what happens when a series of natural and human events catastrophically coincide to change the course of history.
The History of the Pink Trunk
In 1945, in the train station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, he has to deal with…
The Congress Dances
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
Salt of the Earth
The issues the miners strike for include equity in wages with Anglo workers, and health and safety issues. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but at home he treats his…
Homesick
A university student returns home to self-isolate during the lockdown. He’s totally alone, he’s caught the virus and in order to cope, he’s started to talk to himself.
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of…
Flannery
A feature documentary directed by Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco about American writer Flannery O’Connor.
Ride Tonight!
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg’s novel.
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
Amid the bitter divisiveness of the Civil War, Confederate Capt. Robert Adams (Julian Adams) feels the rift within his soul. Steadfastly loyal to the South, Adams also holds an unshakable…
X-15
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
Roe v. Wade
Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.
Manon Lescaut
There is nothing we can do against the call of love. Amiens, 1713. Des Grieux is a noble young student, wise for his years, who’s preparing to become a knight…
Enfant Terrible
When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to…
Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story
The true story of Mahalia Jackson, who began singing at an early age and went on to become one of the most revered gospel figures in U.S. history, melding her…
Doctor Lisa
The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together….
The Long Way Home
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
The War Below
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man’s land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the…
Operation Amsterdam
Operation Amsterdam is a 1959 adventure film, directed by Michael McCarthy, and featuring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, and Tony Britton. It is based on a true story as described in…
Rwanda
Two white Italian actors play Black Rwandans in a fact-based tale set during the Rwanda genocide.
First Signal
When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.
Bombshells and Dollies
Female Empowerment Documentary on the Contemporary Pinup Lifestyle & The Miss Viva Las Vegas Pinup Contest – ‘Celebrating every woman’s right to total body acceptance, to be self-confident and to…
Killing Patient Zero
Skilfully revealing the homophobia behind the headlines, this doc traces the devastating impact of the 1980s AIDS epidemic and clears the name of the Québécois flight attendant who was infamously…
Les Misérables
Valjean’s new life as a man of position and respect is forever threatened by dogged detective Javert.
Storm Over Paris
Second part of the adapation of Hugo’s novel “Les misérables”.
Io ricordo. Piazza Fontana
A documentary-fiction that reconstructs the complex procedural path followed by the 1969 massacre through the point of view of Francesca Dendena, daughter of one of the victims and President of…
The Shortest Day
The Shortest Day is a 1962 Italian comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia and Franco Franchi…
The Last Frontier
The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold…
Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission
WWII hero with the 4th Emergency Rescue Squadron, Lt. Royal Stratton, leads a deadly mission to save the lives of nine downed airmen adrift in enemy waters of a war-torn…
Sometimes in April
Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.
Tokyo Bordello
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owners of the brothel has hopes to make…
Dance of the Forty One
Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio DÃaz.
Holbein: Eye of the Tudors
A survey of Hans Holbein’s career from his beginnings as a religious painter to his work for Henry VIII and beyond. The program also includes a close analysis of “The…