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Trail of Hope

DocumentaryHistory

Hal Holbrook narrates this breathtaking documentary. Produced for national release on PBS Television, Trail of Hope captures the 22-year history of the Mormon Trail, a singular saga in American history. This conduit to the West was used by more than 70,000 emigrants - most of them migrating for religious reasons on their journey to the Great Basin. The great majority of these pioneers made the trek on foot across windblown plains, sunbaked deserts and frozen mountain valleys; each step a triumph in the face of tragedy, and a testament to unwavering faith.

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Custer's Last Stand

DocumentaryHistory

Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26, 1876, Custer, a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. By day's end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead.

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Bengal Memory

DocumentaryHistory

A Bangladeshi American undertakes a journey to learn about the liberation war in his native country, traveling there for the first time in nearly two decades, and uncovering the controversial role the U.S. played in a forgotten genocide that occurred there over 50 years ago. From 1971 to the present day, this is a story of Bangladesh’s independence, a family’s journey immigrating to America, and the cognitive dissonance of a person belonging to both homelands. Driven by interviews with his father and other family members, along with experts and witnesses, archival videos, declassified recordings, and animations, BENGAL MEMORY is a unique and untold oral history through a personal lens.

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Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes

DocumentaryHistory

Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the greatest and most intriguing Egyptian mummies - and the secrets that lie beneath the bandages. Having remained in their tombs for thousands of years, wrapped, embalmed and buried with treasure, each mummy tells the story of the criminals, priests, children and pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.

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Hebe

DramaHistory

Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.

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What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?

AnimationHistory

As they begin their journey home from their student exchange term, Charlie Brown and the gang find themselves sidetracked. They have severe car trouble and more importantly, they pass by various monuments to World Wars I & II. With Linus guiding them through these memorials, they learn about the events of the wars and the sacrifices required of the troops who fought them.

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Doppelgänger

HistoryMystery

Hans and Jan Bitner live on opposite sides of the iron curtain. Hans lives in France, he leads a quiet life. Bitner is a Pole, involved in the fight for a free Poland. Their lives are different, but there is one detail that links them.

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Race

DocumentaryHistory

Can one recent local election in Louisiana tell us anything about the state of race relations in twenty-first century America? RACE is a story of high ground and low roads in post-Katrina New Orleans politics.

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I am Al Ittihad

DramaHistory

In a seaside city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia an old man tells the story of first soccer club Al Ittihad to a young man, taking him from the late 20's when the club established and how they shape up a team against all the odds and the story continues till the early 70's where the team faced major issues and how the club and its men dealt with it.

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Horoucí srdce

DramaHistory

The years 1851-1856: events from the life of the writer Božena Němcová, who, because of her free-thinking views and strong patriotic feelings, comes into conflict with the society, the church and the Austrian authorities... A cold, too readable version of the writer's biography. The playwright František Pavlíček dealt with the theme of "Němcová" also later - in the times of his dissidence.

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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

DramaHistory

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

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Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

DocumentaryTV Movie

Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from 16th century.

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Zdivočelá země

AdventureHistory

After World War II, fighter pilot Antonín Maděra returns from England to his native village in the Ore Mountains to forget the hardships and horrors of war and to "live, work, and love his neighbors," as he himself says. But Svatý Štěpán, which his family had to leave in 1939, is no longer the same place it used to be. However, even in his wildest dreams, he could not have imagined what really awaited him there.

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The Return of She-Wolf

HorrorHistory

A young couple arrives to the palace, where years ago the Countess Julia, She-Wolf was terrorising its inhabitants. Soon the ghost of the Countess attacks the fiancée.

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Days of August

RomanceDrama

In a dystopian America dominated by a tyrannical police state, a stirring revolution clashes with a forbidden romance.

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The Giant of Norway

History

This short tells the story of Norwegian explorer and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). After a life of adventure, he was instrumental in resettling tens of thousands of refugees and displaced persons resulting from World War I. He continued this work in 1922 after the war between Greece and Turkey. The film ends by reminding moviegoers to think of the plight of contemporary refugees caused by the fighting in Europe.

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Kamakura Sandaiki - Inugawa-mura Kankyo

HistoryDrama

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Anarkali

HistoryRomance

Based on a popular historical legend, Prince Salim has a passionate love affair with a beautiful, sassy commoner.

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Kampf auf der Bosporus-Brücke - Die Türkei und der gescheiterte Putschversuch

DocumentaryHistory

The night of July 15, 2016 changed the history of Turkey. On that day there were coordinated attacks by parts of the Turkish army, among others in Istanbul. The aim of the military: a coup against the government. The decisive confrontation occurred on the Bosporus Bridge. While President Erdogan was still on vacation, live at TV he called on the people who were devoted to him to stand against the military. As an enemy for the masses, he presented his adversary Fethullah Gülen, whom he branded as the coup leader. He also urged the imams of the country's mosques to condition the population to resist. And so it happens that at night thousands of agitated people take to the streets to oppose the armed insurgents. The death toll was high. 352 people died across Turkey during the attempted coup. The consequences are even more serious: Erdogan used this gift, as he called it himself, to undermine democracy, to arrange mass arrests of dissidents and to transform Turkey into a dictatorship.

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Li Bai's Adventure in Chang An

ActionAdventure

Meng Haoran was about to attend the imperial exam in Chang'an and Li Bai accompanied him there. On their way to Chang’an, Li Bai incidentally saved Liu Moxuan, the daughter of a general who was guarding the frontier and the two became inseparable.

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