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Hitler's Teen Killers
Hitler's Teen Killers
They grew up under the Nazi regime. They pledged to give their lives for Hitler. They were fanatics who would not be stopped. They were the 20,000 teenagers who made up the 12th SS Panzer Division. Unleashed in France to halt the Allied invasion, they would sow terror and destruction in their wake. Historical colorized archives and a handful of survivors tell us this story.
Hitler's Teen Killers 2020
Burning Sky
Burning Sky
Burning Sky 2020
As Long As I'm Famous
As Long As I'm Famous
Writer/Director Bruce Reisman pays homage to the Golden Age of Broadway during the summer of 1948. Inspired by true events, this is the story of private, often forbidden romances of legends from Montgomery Clift to Richard Rodgers, told through the perspective of 24-year-old Sidney Lumet. This special director’s cut adds 12 minutes of previously-unseen footage.
As Long As I'm Famous 2020
The Exit of the Trains
The Exit of the Trains
A film composed entirely of archival photographs and documents related to the Iași Pogrom of June 1941. The first part of the film consists of photographs of the victims, accompanied by statements and testimonies about their fate. The second part, shorter, is a montage of photos of the pogrom itself.
The Exit of the Trains 2020
Six: The Fully Animated Musical
Six: The Fully Animated Musical
An animated movie based on the hit stage musical SIX animated in the summer of 2020 by Pearl with No Salt
Six: The Fully Animated Musical 2020
1903: Relived: Stage 1 Of The First Tour
1903: Relived: Stage 1 Of The First Tour
On the 19th of July 1903 60 cyclists left Paris for the maiden stage of the very first Tour de France, racing 467km through the night to the line in Lyon. 116 years later, two modern-day riders attempted to recreate the feat of endurance using bikes and equipment from the early 20th century to fully experience the highs and lows of the early Tour pioneers. Endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont and GCN presenter James Lowsley-Williams are pushed to the limits of their physical and mental ability, struggling with the midsummer heat, bikes borrowed from museums and a lack of sleep. How did they compare to the Tour’s first heroes?
1903: Relived: Stage 1 Of The First Tour 2020
Ark of the Covenant: the Bible’s Origins
Ark of the Covenant: the Bible’s Origins
Archaeologist Israel Finkelstein and fellow biblical scholar Thomas Romer head a delegation of excavations to discover the secrets of the archeological site in Kiryat Yearim. The Bible tells us that the Ark of the Covenant was preserved at this site before it was moved to Jerusalem. And accumulate into a fascinating investigation that reveals an even bigger story concerning the roots of the Bible itself.
Ark of the Covenant: the Bible’s Origins 2020
Signoret et Montand, Monroe et Miller : Deux couples à Hollywood
Signoret et Montand, Monroe et Miller : Deux couples à Hollywood
In January 1960, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, one of the most famous star couples of the day, were on tour in the United States. Yves Montand had just triumphed on the country's biggest stages. Simone Signoret, who had distinguished herself in "Room at the Top", was about to win an Oscar. It was then that they met Arthur Miller, a writer and playwright but above all, at the time, the husband of Marilyn Monroe, a world star at the height of her fame and beauty. Yves Montand and Marilyn Monroe fell in love and the actress did everything she could to make a film with the Frenchman. This is how they met on the set of the film "Let's Make Love".
Signoret et Montand, Monroe et Miller : Deux couples à Hollywood 2020
Into the Abyss: The Story of Subaquatic Exploration
Into the Abyss: The Story of Subaquatic Exploration
An exciting look back at the major stages in the conquest of the underwater depths, from the end of the 1950s to Laurent Ballesta's great adventure in the summer of 2019.
Into the Abyss: The Story of Subaquatic Exploration 2020
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution
A documentary chronicling the role of Black heroism in America's Revolutionary War.
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution 2020
Narthanasala
Narthanasala
Pandavas, after completing the 12 years of exile in the forest along with their wife Draupadi, choosing their disguised avatars for the remaining 1 year of incognito life until the Vijaya Dasami festival. If caught, they will have to repeat another exile of 13 years if anyone spotted their real identities.
Narthanasala 2020
Blue Line of Defense
Blue Line of Defense
Blue Line of Defense 2020
Shadow Country
Shadow Country
The film chronicles the events of a village on the Czech-Austrian border from the 1930s to 1950s, where genocide occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.
Shadow Country 2020
This Is Halloween
This Is Halloween
Shock Docs: This is Halloween combines an impressive set of experts/historians and stars from many of the Travel Channel’s most popular series such as Ghost Nation, Destination Fear, Ghost Brothers, Kindred Spirits, Expedition Bigfoot, and The Holzer Files to reminisce on not only the history/origins of the holiday, but also recall their favorite memories of the celebrations, costumes, and scares.
This Is Halloween 2020
The Queen and the Coup
The Queen and the Coup
Planned by Britain’s MI6 and then executed by America’s C.I.A., the coup d’état which follows will destroy Iran’s last democracy, and relations between Iran and the West until the present day. Most shocking of all, the truth about Her Majesty’s role will be hidden from the Queen herself, and even the all-powerful Shah who will be used by Britain and American to replace Iran’s last democratic Prime Minister. The coup will lead to political upheaval all over the Middle East for decades to come, eventually resulting in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which will end the reign of the Shah, and British and American influence in Iran, inspiring countless other Islamist revolutions around the world.
The Queen and the Coup 2020
Lucy Worsley's Royal Palace Secrets
Lucy Worsley's Royal Palace Secrets
Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces: the Tower of London, Hampton Court, and Kensington Palace.
Lucy Worsley's Royal Palace Secrets 2020
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie
Surpassed only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the most successful writer of all time. We all know her characters and incredible plot twists, but what do we know about Agatha herself? Combining rare access to Agatha's family, her personal archive and speaking to those who know her work best, discover what made the world's most successful crime writer tick.
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie 2020
The World's Biggest Murder Trial: Nuremberg
The World's Biggest Murder Trial: Nuremberg
Recounting the dramatic story of the Nuremberg Trials, using over a thousand archive clips, including recently digitised film footage from the courtroom. 21 Nazi leaders were charged with crimes that caused the deaths of millions of innocents.
The World's Biggest Murder Trial: Nuremberg 2020
Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History
Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History
Broadcasters Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein celebrate black classical composers and musicians across the centuries whose stories and music have been forgotten in a 90-minute special.
Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History 2020
Diary of a Purse Fucker
Diary of a Purse Fucker
Diary of a Purse Fucker is a film based on diaries from two anonymous men which written around January-February 2020. It’s the story about a man who like to has sex with purse, coronavirus, political parties, skin, semen, the half dead fish, Bangkok and this country.
Diary of a Purse Fucker 2020
Red Devil and Heroine Su
Red Devil and Heroine Su
A lesbian short film released by RelaApp as a valentine's day special starring real life couple SUN&Shou. One is a righteous, thoughtful, and introverted martial arts master, and the other is a clever, cunning, and arrogant demon. They admire each other and work hand in hand to plan against the enemy; however, they can't help being from two different worlds. In the end that is no match for their lovesickness and affection, the lovers get married.
Red Devil and Heroine Su 2020
The Weight of Steel Title
The Weight of Steel Title
Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be it as the leading industrial manager of Krupp or as the rescuer of numerous Jews during National Socialism.
The Weight of Steel Title 2020
The Best of WWE: 10 Best Matches of 2020
The Best of WWE: 10 Best Matches of 2020
In a year of uncertainty and change, WWE once again delivered a bevy of unforgettable showdowns. These matches are the best of the best from 2020, from a groundbreaking and innovative cinematic match to classic old-school battles decided inside the squared circle.
The Best of WWE: 10 Best Matches of 2020 2020
When Forever Dies
When Forever Dies
An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They are embodied by actors and actresses from long-gone eras, but also by cartoon characters and puppet animations. Together they narrate the story of the euphoric ups and tragic downs of human existence. When Forever Dies, a virtuoso collage of film fragments from the Eye Filmmuseum archive, is an epic ode to largely unseen cinema anchored in the polarizing world of today.
When Forever Dies 2020
La véritable histoire du comte de Monte Cristo
La véritable histoire du comte de Monte Cristo
La véritable histoire du comte de Monte Cristo 2020
Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz
Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz
After mysterious notes found at Auschwitz are discovered to be written by the Sonderkommando, a unit of Jewish prisoners tasked with guiding other prisoners to the gas chambers, experts look into the lives of these prisoners labelled as traitors.
Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz 2020
Obama: Building the Dream
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Obama: Building the Dream
He was elected as the 44th President of the United States simply for being Obama: voters, tired of what America had become, responded to his persona, his message and what he embodied - hope. Obama was in many ways a mirror, a mirror in which millions of Americans saw reflected their personal ideals: ideals of justice, tolerance and equality. After spending two tumultuous terms in office, through a period of geopolitical upheaval and economic crisis, it is easy to forget how the young president captivated the world simply by being 'Obama'.
Obama: Building the Dream 2020
Captain Blackbeard
Captain Blackbeard
A girl plays at being a pirate when she learns that her father's ranch will be invaded. Convinced that she can help, she goes into the forest, not knowing that she will find something worse.
Captain Blackbeard 2020
Re-Electing Lincoln
Re-Electing Lincoln
Leading Lincoln historian Harold Holzer masterfully recalls a dramatic Presidential Election that redefined racial politics and changed the course of history.
Re-Electing Lincoln 2020
The Name of the People
The Name of the People
Life of Serbian patriot and intelectual Svetozar Miletic and his family in a fight to free Serbian people from Austria-Hungary.
The Name of the People 2020
Toloka
Toloka
There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.
Toloka 2020
Mucha: The Story of an Artist Who Created a Style
Mucha: The Story of an Artist Who Created a Style
Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century. Virtually overnight, he becomes famous in Paris thanks to the posters that he designs to announce actress Sarah Bernhardt’s plays. But at the height of his fame, Mucha decides to leave Paris to realize his lifetime project.
Mucha: The Story of an Artist Who Created a Style 2020
Toni Morrison: Black Matter(s)
Toni Morrison: Black Matter(s)
Toni Morrison (1931-2019), first black woman writer being awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature, was a critic, a book editor, a college professor, and a creative author of novels, poems and essays. She claimed the invention of a black writing and brought the light on what had kept silenced since the days of the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation: the black people history.
Toni Morrison: Black Matter(s) 2020
Lovecraft Country
Lovecraft Country
A young black man travels across the segregated United States in the 1950s in search of his missing father, learning of dark secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H. P. Lovecraft supposedly based the location of many of his fictional tales.
Lovecraft Country 2020
Queen Esther
Queen Esther
Set in the opulent yet perilous Persian Empire, QUEEN ESTHER is a captivating tale of beauty and bravery. Esther’s ordinary life changed forever when she was taken through the palace doors, entering a new world of royalty and risk. With a crown on her head and a secret in her heart, can she find the courage to trust in God’s plan and believe that she was made for such a time as this? Experience one of the most riveting Bible stories of the Old Testament as it comes to life with magnificent sets, special effects, and live animals in this brand-new, original stage production!
Queen Esther 2020
The Bloody Border
The Bloody Border
The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire; an epic tale of poverty, hunger, despair, violence and unyielding courage.
The Bloody Border 2020
The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant
The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant
Numerous films deal with the American Civil War, which raged between the northern Union States and the southern Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. One general who rose to become a war icon and the 18th pres-ident of the United States was Ulysses S. Grant. Director Jim Finn uses board games to reconstruct the battles and documents a divided nation full of rebellious factions.
The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant 2020
Holy Silence
Holy Silence
As World War II looms, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. But death intervenes, and Pope Pius XII now carries out a very different response to Hitler and the Holocaust.
Holy Silence 2020
Real Haunts
Real Haunts
An Original Documentary that explores the unexplained events at 5 unique locations including an Antebellum Haunted Mansion, the most spirited Movie Palace in America, a tragic spot in the Florida Clay Pits, Al Capone's Florida Hideout and more with 4 Expert Investigation Teams.
Real Haunts 2020
Khadjibey Fortress
Khadjibey Fortress
Son Kale Hacibey is a historical action film that tells the story of a battle between the Turkish Ottoman Empire and the Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire on the one hand, and the Russian Empire on the other hand. The forces are fighting to gain control of the Hacibey Castle, an impenetrable fortress located on the Black Sea coast in the heart of Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire. And just when the Russians thought they were winning the battle against Ukrainians and Turks, a mysterious hero - a brave Ukrainian cossack warrior Andriy - arrives in Istambul to deliver a secret message from from Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire's leadership. A message that can forever change the course of this battle.
Khadjibey Fortress 2020