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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a TV movie starring Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, and August Schellenberg. A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded...

Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues.

Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.

Hwa-ryeo-han-hyoo-ga is a movie starring Kim Sang-kyung, Yo-won Lee, and Sung-Ki Ahn. The story of events leading up to the 1980 Gwangju massacre in South Korea when thousands of students and protesters were killed by armed troops...

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a movie starring Harold Agnew, Shuntaro Hida, and Kiyoko Imori. Using extensive interviews with survivors and archival footage, an examination reveals the...

A look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as "The Butcher of Lyon." This documentary's main focus will be on Barbie's post-war activities, in which he became a counter-intelligence agent who w

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperat

Battle for Haditha is a movie starring Matthew Knoll, Elliot Ruiz, and Eric Mehalacopoulos. An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the...

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con him.

Harald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état.

Katyn is a movie starring Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, and Artur Zmijewski. An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.

Se, jie is a movie starring Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Tang Wei, and Joan Chen. During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.

Ji jie hao is a movie starring Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, and Wenkang Yuan. A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.

Actor Don Cheadle narrates the story of America's first shock-jock, Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene.

Raised in a home broken by wartime trauma, the frustrated teenage son of a Dutch Holocaust survivor starts down a path of further tragedy when he finds belonging in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads.

Based on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guangzhong. It ranks as one of China's four most important pieces of literature.

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.

Admiral is a movie starring Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, and Sergey Bezrukov. The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule...

Vals Im Bashir is a movie starring Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, and Ronny Dayag. An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that...

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is a movie starring Phillip Adams, Glory Annen, and Christine Amor. The story of the Australian exploitation genre cinema of 1970s and 80s.

Che: Part One is a movie starring Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, and Oscar Isaac. In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Zeitgeist: Addendum attempts to locate the root causes of the pervasive social corruption, while also offering a solution.

Passchendaele is a movie starring Paul Gross, Michael Greyeyes, and James Kot. The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle...

Sharpe's Peril is an episode of Sharpe starring Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, and Michael Cochrane. Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from...

Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.

Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas.

A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.

A documentary about the forced migration of New Orleans residents to cities in Texas. The film juxtaposes the migrations that occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Gustave in 2008.

Journey to Mecca is a movie starring Chems-Eddine Zinoune, Hassam Ghancy, and Essam Edriss. One of the greatest travellers in human history, twenty-one-year-old law student Ibn Battutah set out alone to Mecca from Tangiers in 1325...

Chi bi: Jue zhan tian xia is a movie starring Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Fengyi Zhang. Second and final part of epic tale about a legendary battle that changed the course of China history.

In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.

The Young Victoria is a movie starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, and Paul Bettany. A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Based on a Japanese folk legend that echoes the tale of Robin Hood, this ninja thriller follows the exploits of Goemon Ishikawa (Yôsuke Eguchi), who leaves his fighting clan after its chief is murdered and uses his skills as a thief

Taking Woodstock is a movie starring Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, and Edward Hibbert. A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.

Capitalism: A Love Story is a movie starring Michael Moore, William Black, and Jimmy Carter. An examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good.

During the devastating North Sea flood of 1953, a young woman and a naval officer search for her lost infant son.

A Joseon dynasty bounty hunter becomes the body guard of the queen he secretly loves.

Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte is a movie starring Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, and Leonie Benesch. Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which...

In 1905, revolutionist Sun Yat-Sen visits Hong Kong to discuss plans with Tongmenghui members to overthrow the Qing dynasty. But when they find out that assassins have been sent to kill him, they assemble a group of protectors to pre

Jeon Woochi is a movie starring Dong-won Gang, Lim Soo-jung, and Kim Yoon-seok. Jeon Woo-chi, an undisciplined womanizing Taoist from the Joseon era, ends up in present day Korea causing mayhem with his knack for magic.

Mi ricordo Anna Frank is a TV movie starring Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Emilio Solfrizzi, and Csilla Bakonyi. Freely inspired by Alison Leslie Gold's "Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend," the film tells of...

Jin yi wei is a movie starring Donnie Yen, Wei Zhao, and Chun Wu. A kung fu thriller set during the Ming Dynasty and centered on a secret service agent (Donnie Yen) in the emperor's court who is betrayed and then hunted by his...

Su Qi-er is a movie starring Wenzhuo Zhao, Xun Zhou, and Andy On. China, 1861: After rescuing the Qing prince from rebels, General Su retires to start a martial arts school. His foster brother betrays him and Su barely survives. Su...

Samurai Ayothaya is a movie starring Seigi Ozeki, Kanokkorn Jaicheun, and Sorapong Chatree. Based on a true historic figure during Ayothaya Era, the film depicts the life of Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who gained...