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This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.

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Cast: Patrick Stewart

What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aidan McArdle

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...

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Cast: Gert Westphal

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

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Cast: Claude Lanzmann

Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.

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Cast: Zahi Hawass

On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, storming the beaches of Normandy. This...

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The battles between the ruling empires and houses of nobility that would decide the fate of the Caucuses, the real Middle Earth, and ultimately the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roman Mitichyan

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Mason

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Cast: Patrice Pouillard

For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alika Del Sol

In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...

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Cast: Aubrey Powell

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated filmmakers in Quebec and Canada, a leak leaked to...

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Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dylan Baker

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Larry Sanger

The story of a Franco-Belgian family living in Japan from 1927 to 1947, a time of prosperity and fortune, but also of political turbulence and war.

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Cast: Barbara Grau

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The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

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Cast: Sandy Boizard

A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nicholas Winton

A film made of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and on the events which preceded it. This film also shows...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Éric Viellard

In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bruno Solo

Examining the life and times of Adolf Hitler and following the full arc of his ascent, tyrannical reign, criminality and undoing.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adolf Hitler

Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Sutherland

Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical...

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From the Gilded Age to the present day, the history of modern United States of America has been one of wealth and power concentrated into the hands...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cédric Tourbe

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Cast: Rufus Beck

Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are unearthing new clues that transform long held...

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A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole....

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How the Silk Road Made the World 3 x 60' NHNZ/CCTV (China Central Television) The Silk Road is one of humanity’s greatest enterprises. For...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Parker

Jonathan Roberge dives into the world of Montréal crime during the 1957-1977 period, when the city saw a prolonged war between the police and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Roberge

Dr Xand van Tulleken and archaeologist Raksha Dave tell the brutal story of one of the most bloody and savage conquests in English history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Xand van Tulleken

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Cast: Pierre Tissot

British show about possible x-files style stories.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Robinson

Women write art history – but in turn are systematically ignored by it. LOST WOMEN ART tells the story of the suppressed female avant-garde and...

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For centuries, explorers have searched for the Bible’s most sacred religious artefacts. One of the most mysterious of these objects is the...

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Historian Bettany Hughes has embarked on an epic, personal journey. Inspired by Homer's The Odyssey, she will sail the unpredictable Mediterranean...

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Cast: Bettany Hughes

Award-winning journalist and author Chris Masters investigates the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s and the events that laid the foundation for Australia...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Masters

Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps of Ulysses, also known by his Greek name...

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This remarkable science-history series investigates the blistering pace of human endeavour in space exploration, computing, energy, resources, Earth...

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Cast: Shalin Naik

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Cast: Sergio Zavoli