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Sinking the Lusitania
The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast on May 7, 1915.
Tragedy at Sea
Just hours after it departed, the cruise ship hit rocks, forcing passengers to evacuate. Geraldo Rivera takes a deep look at the tragic and deadly Costa Concordia cruise ship that went down off the west coast of Italy in 2012.
The Spitfire Story
The Spitfire was the plane no-one wanted - government, industry and even the Royal Air Force turned it down.
Only the faith of its brilliant designer, R.J. Mitchell, kept the Spitfire project moving forward and into service - just in time to become the symbol of British pride and power as a "killer fighter" during the Battle of Britain.
Mobilizing Movies! The U.S. Signal Corps Goes to War, 1917-1919
Focuses on the official military cinematographers that accompanied the American Expeditionary Force in France, how these men were trained, improvements in camera technique, the conditions at the front while filming the Great War and the uneasy relationship between the U.S. Signal Corps that was officially assigned to cover the war and the Committee on Public Information (CPI), America's wartime propaganda agency.
Tania
GDR 1961: Tamara Bunke, daughter of Jewish exiles from Argentina, not only falls for the political goals of the rousing revolutionary Che Guevara during a state visit. She also meets Ulises Estrada, the commandant of Che's team. Ignited by the fire of the revolution, she gets involved in a diabolical espionage deal with the Stasi in order to cheat her way out of Cuba. In Cuba, she ends up caught between all fronts: under the watchful eye of the Stasi, which expects results from her, but in reality solely dedicated to Che's revolution, Tamara allows herself to be trained as a double spy by Che's troops. At the same time, her honest love grows for Commandante Ulises, who eventually gives her the choice of following her personal happiness and going into hiding rather than following Che's plans to liberate South America, which by now he considers a suicide mission. An unresolvable, deeply tragic conflict that ends fatally for Tamara in the battle of Bolivia's Rio Grande..
Margherita, The Woman Who Invented Mussolini
Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the Duce and on Italian cultural life. Through archival documents, autobiographical texts and love letters, the documentary paints a portrait of the woman who helped create the myth of the Duce.
Girls of the Rain
Girls of the Rain concludes Alida Dimitriou’s filmtrilogy on the contribution of women to political struggles in Greece during the twentieth century. The film is about women imprisoned and tortured during the Colonels’ dictatorship of 1967-1974. At the time, these womenwere in their twenties. Fifty women offer their testimonials. They all share the ethos of the women who took part in the National Resistance, and pursue the establishment of human dignity just as persistently. The “Girls of the Rain” consider themselves successors of those women. One of them said:“...we are their successors, just like the youth of today are our successors”. Remarkably, these are the words of a woman deprived by her torturers of the ability to have children.
Maya: Lords of the Jungle
Archaeological work on the Mayan civilization in Central America is revealing new facts about Mayan history, religion, agriculture, social structure, and art.
Yeltsin
In 2013, the Springfield, Missouri band Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin traveled to Russia as Cultural Ambassadors, having been formally invited by the Boris Yeltsin Foundation (who had accidentally discovered the band while Googling the former Russian president’s name). Filmmaker Brook Linder followed and chronicled the band’s strange connection with Russian history, leading to a reflection of the band’s own past.
The Prince and the Pagoda Boy
The film recounts the life of Ly Cong Uan from his youth as a Buddhist disciple to his ascension to Emperor of Vietnam in 1010 AD. The Prince and the Pagoda Boy was released in 2010 to mark the 100th anniversary of the city of Thang Long (today's Ha Noi).
The Pompeii Prophecy: Countdown To Devastation
With reference to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, investigators hunt for clues hidden beneath the surface to assess the risk of a new and potentially devastating event of equal magnitude. This documentary follows historians and geologists as they discover the latest evidence of Pompeii's fiery destruction, unpacking the chain of events that led to the ancient world's most notorious disaster in AD 79. What lessons does the tragedy of Pompeii hold for Naples' citizens, who face a mounting threat from the unseen forces beneath their feet?
The Battle of San Lorenzo
Piedra Blanca, San Luis, Argentina, 1930. A school teacher loved by his students, must confront parents for his particular pedagogy.
The Apocalypse of Love
Chizuko marries a missionary in charge of an orphanage in the colony of Korea. After the end of the Pacific War, she is compelled to return to Japan but later returns. When the Korean War breaks out, her husband is arrested for espionage.
A.R.P.U.
In a world where data is our only currency, a career-driven young mother is forced to fight for her way of life when a global tech giant comes to claim a debt.
The Two Thousand Year Old Computer
In 1901, a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, off the southern coast of Greece, found a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea. The 2,000-year-old object, no bigger than a modern laptop, is now regarded as the world's oldest computer, devised to predict solar eclipses and, according to recent findings, calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics. Following the efforts of an international team of scientists, the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism are uncovered, revealing surprising and awe-inspiring details of the object that continues to mystify.
ITA Live: Kings of War
In Kings of War, director Ivo van Hove focuses on political leadership. The original texts were retranslated by Rob Klinkenberg and then thoroughly adapted: the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and the Rose Wars between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, which are emphatically present as a historical context in the original pieces, were referred to the background in the adaptation in order to accommodate a varied portrait of successive kings. As leaders in times of political instability and war, they show remarkable affinities with world leaders today.
Shattered
A microcosm of China past and present flows through Xu Tong’s intimate docu “Shattered,” in which the maverick indie filmmaker continues to refine his techniques and concerns shown in his previous “Wheat Harvest” and “Fortune Teller.”
Valiyor Silar
The struggle between a youngster and a cop. When the policeman snatches the youngster's money, he must find a unique way to get his money back.
One Woman, One Vote
Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon narrates this educational installment of the popular "American Experience" series as it examines the 72-year struggle for a woman's right to vote. Segments focus on influential figures in the women's suffrage movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul; the country's widespread fear of social revolution; and the U.S. Senate's passage of the 19th Amendment by a single vote.
The Count of Monte Cristo: The True Story
Behind the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas lies a true, dreadful story of a man who seeks to quench his thirst for vengeance. Turned in by his so-called friends, a man named Picaud is locked away for years in the Alps with a priest who ends up leaving him his fortune. Embark on Picaud's journey, and relive the true, grim story that became a world-renowned novel, inspiring countless remakes.
Smoking
In 1550, the French ambassador Jean Nicot introduced the seeds of the Nicotiana tabacum plant into Europe, and from his name was born one of the most widespread drugs in the world, nicotine. A substance that works through the action of dopamine receptors and is similar to that caused by Heroin and Cocaine. Almost a billion people in the world smoke cigarettes and in many cases they must use all their willpower to quit. This is the story of a person struggling with his addiction and chasing a life free from smoking.
The Contest
About the legendary musical competition between the famous Turkmen dutar player Shukur Bakhshy and Persian court musician Ghulam Bakhshy.
In the Name of the Revolution
1918. After the death of the mother, the father decides to take the children to Moscow to see a distant relative. On the way, the guys experience a raid by a White Guard gang on a train, the death of their father, and meet the homeless child Yashka, who brings a plan to Lenin - how to destroy all the bourgeoisie and all the counter-propaganda in one day. The boys become involved in revolutionary events, and ahead is Moscow, a chance meeting and conversation with Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, the fight against counter-revolution...
The 9/11 Tapes: Chaos in the Sky
Where we you on 9/11? Ask just about anybody, and they can tell you exactly where they were when the twin towers fell. For most, that’s when the tragedy started to unfold. But the truth is the day’s events began long before the first plane hit and continued long after. For the first time, you’ll hear the stories of real Americans who were at the heart of what happened on September 11, 2001. You’ll hear actual recordings from air traffic controllers as they watched the first plane fly into the World Trade Center. Listen to audio recordings taken from flight UA93 before it crashed into a Pennsylvania field. See how defense teams raced to send fighter jets to intercept any incoming planes to the pentagon, but unfortunately arrived too late.
The Footprints of God: Mary the Mother of God
This second film in the the Footprints of God series follows Mary on her extraordinary journey on location in Turkey, Israel and Greece with popular Catholic author and speaker Stephen Ray as guide. Down-to-earth teaching on subjects like Mary's Immaculate Conception, Assumption into Heaven, and her role of intercessor, and more are offered in an energized, high-impact style that combines the best elements of a travel documentary, biography, Bible study, apologetics course, and church history review.
Ala Moana Boys
Blamed for a crime they did not commit, five young men in 1930s Hawai’i must consider their futures and their families as they weigh the consequences of taking action.
ჯოჯოხეთის ქვა
From a small Georgian mining town Chiatura, we zoom out to scrutinize the geopolitical and economic interrelations that link this peripheral site of extraction to a vast network of places, subjects and processes across the globe.
Another Day
Before the July 1958 revolution, Abu Saeed decides to incite the peasants to rebel against Sheikh Majid Al-Iqtai, who had burned their crops, exploited them, and enslaved them for many years. He succeeds in rallying the people's spirits against him.
Raja Rammohan
Raja RamMohan Roy, a social reformer, stands against the evil customs of the society. Soon, he starts a battle to abolish 'sati pratha' in the Hindu communities.
The Mauthausen Resistance
During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where 120,000 people died, managed not only to survive their indescribable experience, but also, after the war, to reveal to the world what really happened in that hell, saving from destruction thousands of official photographs taken by the SS.
Kudibanguela!
A young political prisoner in Luanda whose whereabouts are unknown to his family tries to convince an older cellmate to smuggle out a small handwritten note.