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

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Cast: Aidan McArdle

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

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

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

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...

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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

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of...

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Cast: Jean Soulat

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Cast: Michael Moloney

The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...

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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 story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

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Cast: Sophie Okonedo

On 16 July 1212, a Crusader army made up of Castilians, Aragonese and Navarrese (but also French, English and Germans) confronted the army of the...

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Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Earth's twin is a planet knocked...

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Cast: Matt Baker

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...

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Cast: Éric Viellard

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aubrey Powell

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

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Cast: Simone Signoret

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Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through...

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Cast: Simon Schwarz

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Cast: Léonie Simaga

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

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Cast: Donald Sutherland

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

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Cast: Adolf Hitler

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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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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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...

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Cast: Jonathan Roberge

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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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: Rufus Beck

A lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experiments. As the material of the lectures should be...

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Cast: Alexander Lippisch

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

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Cast: Xand van Tulleken

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Cast: Pierre Tissot

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

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Cast: Chris Masters

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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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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British show about possible x-files style stories.

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Cast: Tony Robinson

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...

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Cast: Craig Parker

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Cast: Sergio Zavoli

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