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Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story

DocumentaryHistory

The documentary follows the remarkable journey in America's heartland of automotive pioneer and visionary, Ralph R. Teetor.

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Golondaaj

RomanceHistory

Based on true events, Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari, "The Father of Indian Football", was the first Indian to play the sport and open a professional football club in the country.

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Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco

ThrillerHistory

Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War gets involved in a treacherous ambush, is mortal injured and dies three days later. A mystery, a conspiracy, a murder that was never solved.

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Bible Battles

DocumentaryHistory

In one of the most hostile lands on the planet, an ancient people called the Israelites forged an army and carved out an empire. Their ancient military exploits are described in one of history's most famous religious texts; the old testament of the Bible. But by reading between the religious lines, ancient military historians unlock the soldier's secrets of the bible by examining the weapons, the strategies; and the commanders, some of whom are unlikely warriors, like Abraham, Moses, and Deborah.

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Love and Hatred

History

Film directed by Ha Chon Woi

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The First Major Case

DramaHistory

"The First Major Case" is a historical drama based on the first major anti-corruption case in the People's Republic of China. Set in 1951, the story follows counter-espionage officer Chen Huaibang, who uncovers the shocking corruption of Liu Qingshan, a former revolutionary hero turned corrupt official. Despite their past, Chen stays true to justice, bringing Liu and his accomplice Zhang Zishan to trial. The film highlights Chen's battle of wits with Liu, Zhang, and the enemy spy known as "Qingmang."

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Song of the chinese revolution

HistoryMusic

The work consists of 6 large-scale dances, 4 sing and dance performances and a chorus. The music and dance epic also gathers colorful dances of China's nations.

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Paris Song

DramaHistory

Based on a true story, a small-town Kazakh singer, Amre Kashaubayev, journeys to Paris to compete in an international singing competition at the 1925 Paris Expo. He meets American songwriter George Gershwin forming a beautiful and unlikely friendship. While Amre’s talent for singing opens up an exciting new world outside Kazakhstan, he is forced to choose between following his singing career and remaining loyal to his home country.

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Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem

DocumentaryHistory

This historical documentary chronicles the 18-month period from mid-1933 to late 1934 when John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and others indulged in the most sweeping crime wave the U.S. has ever experienced. It was an era when outlaws became folk heroes because they robbed from the rich, even if they didn't share much with the poor. It was also a time when the newly formed FBI extended its reach as a law enforcement entity.

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The Plague

DocumentaryHistory

It began much like the common cold. Yet within a day fever took over black swellings the size of baseballs appeared on the neck and finally a highly contagious bloody cough quickly sealed the victim's fate. During the worst biological disaster in the history of mankind the so-called black death released an indiscriminate fury which shook the very foundations of human order. Religious hysteria began to break out and in desperation frenzied masses scrambled to find a scapegoat. When all was said and done nearly one-third of Europe's population had been completely wiped out and devastated survivors were left to contend with a world forever changed both socially and economically. In this feature-length special THE HISTORY CHANNEL-® investigates the origins of this devastating moment in human history and explores the many questions surrounding the terrifying possibility of a modern-day biological threat.

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Tutankhamun In Colour

DocumentaryHistory

The BBC version of "King Tut In Color" documentary. A century after the world’s most exciting archaeological find - the tomb of Tutankhamun - we can witness the dramatic scenes of its discovery and marvel at its extraordinary treasures exactly as they were then, in colour.

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Goldfish

DramaHistory

1946, Kyrgyzstan, evacuated from Leningrad woman with two children — boys of six and ten years. Their father is in hospital, badly wounded. Time is poor, hungry. The family fights for life, selling homemade rugs on the market and picking up everything that can be useful in the economy on the ruins of abandoned houses. Once the brothers find in the dump a book with wonderful pictures. This is Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale "goldfish". The mother reads it to them before bedtime — and in the lives of boys be the dream and the sense of becoming owners of the coveted gold fish and the three wishes, one of which, of course, the return of the father, alive and well.

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The Cherry Tree

AnimationFamily

In postwar Tokyo, while his mum works, Taichi spends his days alone and misses his dad who was killed in the war. Through his friendship with an old man who tends a seemingly dead cherry tree, Taichi learns about the tree and gradually becomes more positive. (Source: Treasures of the Heart)

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Iriston's Son

HistoryDrama

After getting expelled from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts for his free-thinking ideas, young artist Kosta Khetagurov returns to his homeland of Iriston, known in Russian as Ossetia. Despite financial troubles and governmental persecution, he tirelessly advocates for the Ossetian people while honing his craft as a poet, playwright, and artist.

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Die Affäre Borgward

HistoryTV Movie

The name of car manufacturer Carl F. W. Borgward is still synonymous with the West German Wirtschaftswunder. For hundreds of thousands the "Isabella" from Borgward is the first car after the war while Borgward secures thousands of jobs in Bremen. But in 1961, the company of the passionate constructor goes surprisingly broke.

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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife

DramaHistory

The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.

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Master of Go: Danghu Duel

History

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Fanfulla da Lodi

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Liberté

DramaHistory

Britain's first Muslim war heroine is tested to the limit as she faces her brutal captors in Nazi-occupied Paris for the last time.

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Turbina

DramaHistory

The imperial councilor Ullik decides to modernize his old mills by installing a new turbine. His eccentric brother-in-law Artuš tries to prevent this, as the construction work disrupts the statics of the tower in which he lives. Ullik's older daughter Tynda is a talented singer. The bewitched girl secretly accepts the courtship of the virile Václav, the son of the night watchman. Her younger sister, the doctor Marie, wins the heart and hand of the astronomer Zouplna, despite her father's prohibition...

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