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  • 2024
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    Endurance

    Endurance

    7.00 2024 HD

    A century after Shackleton's Endurance sank beneath the ice, explorers uncover the legendary shipwreck and an amazing tale of survival.

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  • 2024
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    Apollo 13: Survival

    Apollo 13: Survival

    7.24 2024 HD

    Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.

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  • 2025
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    Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals

    Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals

    7.09 2025 HD

    A democracy and a dictatorship. A presidential campaign and dirty money. War and death. When Nicolas Sarkozy affirmed in the press that “No one...

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  • 2024
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    Einstein and the Bomb

    Einstein and the Bomb

    6.07 2024 HD

    What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.

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  • 2023
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    The Barbie Story

    The Barbie Story

    6.50 2023 HD

    She's been around for so many decades but hasn't aged a day. She's had more than 180 different jobs; she's been president, she's been to the moon,...

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  • 2011
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    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend

    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend

    5.85 2011 HD

    Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.

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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.73 2017 HD

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

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  • 2024
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    Secrets of the Neanderthals

    Secrets of the Neanderthals

    6.87 2024 HD

    This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.

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  • 2003
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    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

    7.69 2003 HD

    Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from...

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    Bad Faith

    Bad Faith

    8.50 2024 HD

    On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our history. Armed militiamen and QAnon followers made...

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  • 2021
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    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    7.18 2021 HD

    Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

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  • 1977
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    Hitler: A Career

    Hitler: A Career

    7.40 1977 HD

    A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...

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  • 1985
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    8.28 1985 HD

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

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  • 2024
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    D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle

    D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle

    8.00 2024 HD

    « Emmanuelle » was released 50 years ago. Its main character, played by the young Sylvia Kristel, delve freely into her sexuality,...

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  • 2023
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    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

    7.50 2023 HD

    In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...

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  • 2023
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    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

    7.35 2023 HD

    Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.

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  • 2008
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    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10

    6.00 2008 HD

    Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...

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  • 2023
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    Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

    Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

    8.20 2023 HD

    The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely...

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  • 2013
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    Bettie Page Reveals All

    Bettie Page Reveals All

    6.80 2013 HD

    The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to...

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  • 2020
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    The Untold Story of the Vatican

    The Untold Story of the Vatican

    7.45 2020 HD

    What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom and is today one of the most visited museum in the...

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  • 2017
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    The Real War of Thrones

    The Real War of Thrones

    7.64 2017 HD

    In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

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  • 1990
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    The Civil War

    The Civil War

    8.05 1990 HD

    A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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  • 2023
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    Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich

    Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich

    10.00 2023 HD

    Examining the life and times of Adolf Hitler and following the full arc of his ascent, tyrannical reign, criminality and undoing.

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  • 2003
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    Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    7.11 2003 HD

    This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.

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  • 2021
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    The Abyss – Rise and Fall of the Nazis

    The Abyss – Rise and Fall of the Nazis

    8.00 2021 HD

    Explores the Third Reich from a contemporary perspective to investigate how the Nazis managed to conquer Germany and then half of Europe in the wake...

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  • 2004
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    Bridging World History

    Bridging World History

    1 2004 HD

    A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole....

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  • 2022
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    Ancient Apocalypse

    Ancient Apocalypse

    6.60 2022 HD

    Journalist Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age.

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  • 2019
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    History Uncovered

    History Uncovered

    6.80 2019 HD

    Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical...

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  • 2023
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    Dark Side of the 2000s

    Dark Side of the 2000s

    6.80 2023 HD

    This documentary series delves into the unseen histories of the 2000s decade, revealing dark secrets and personal insights from the people who...

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  • 2020
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    Ku Klux Klan: An American Story

    Ku Klux Klan: An American Story

    6.60 2020 HD

    Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States....

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  • 2022
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    Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    7.25 2022 HD

    Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?

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  • 2021
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    The Titans That Built America

    The Titans That Built America

    7.80 2021 HD

    Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William...

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  • 2022
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    Lost Treasures of Rome

    Lost Treasures of Rome

    6.00 2022 HD

    This new series follows International teams of archaeologists on the front line, as they embark on a season of excavations to unravel the secrets of...

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  • 2021
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    JFK: Destiny Betrayed

    JFK: Destiny Betrayed

    7.60 2021 HD

    Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

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  • 2024
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    Pirates: Behind the Legends

    Pirates: Behind the Legends

    6.80 2024 HD

    From legendary John Ward, immortalized in fiction as Jack Sparrow, and English explorer Francis Drake; branded Pirates by their enemies but heroes by...

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  • 2023
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    1942, un monde en guerre

    1942, un monde en guerre

    8.30 2023 HD

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  • 2023
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    Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth

    Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth

    8.10 2023 HD

    From the Gilded Age to the present day, the history of modern United States of America has been one of wealth and power concentrated into the hands...

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  • 2015
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    Jesus and Islam

    Jesus and Islam

    5.00 2015 HD

    Jesus of Nazareth, the founding figure of Christianity, is also an exceptional character in the Koran. Why? In what way? A deep investigation around...

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  • 2019
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    Chasing the Moon

    Chasing the Moon

    8.30 2019 HD

    An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the...

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  • 2018
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    How The Silk Road Made the World

    How The Silk Road Made the World

    1 2018 HD

    How the Silk Road Made the World 3 x 60' NHNZ/CCTV (China Central Television) The Silk Road is one of humanity’s greatest enterprises. For...

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