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  • 2024
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    Apollo 13: Survival

    Apollo 13: Survival

    7.20 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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  • 2003
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    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

    7.70 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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  • 2024
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    Einstein and the Bomb

    Einstein and the Bomb

    6.00 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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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.72 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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  • 1977
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    Hitler: A Career

    Hitler: A Career

    7.30 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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  • 2021
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    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    7.20 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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  • 2023
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    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

    7.40 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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  • 1985
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    8.29 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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  • 2012
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    The Gatekeepers

    The Gatekeepers

    6.94 2012 HD

    In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak...

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  • 2024
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    Secrets of the Neanderthals

    Secrets of the Neanderthals

    7.00 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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  • 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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    Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences

    Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences

    8.20 2024 HD

    It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean....

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  • 2022
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    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates

    7.81 2022 HD

    Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of...

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    Bad Faith

    Bad Faith

    10.00 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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  • 2010
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    The Revelation of the Pyramids

    The Revelation of the Pyramids

    6.40 2010 HD

    For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of...

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  • 2020
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    Prehistoric Worlds

    Prehistoric Worlds

    9.00 2020 HD

    Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the planet. What did these prehistoric creatures look...

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    Christspiracy

    Christspiracy

    9.00 2024 HD

    The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit from their exploitation, as informed by world...

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  • 2023
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    1212. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

    1212. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

    5.80 2023 HD

    On 16 July 1212, a Crusader army made up of Castilians, Aragonese and Navarrese (but also French, English and Germans) confronted the army of the...

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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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  • 2006
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    Freedom's Fury

    Freedom's Fury

    7.60 2006 HD

    A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were...

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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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  • 1990
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    The Civil War

    The Civil War

    8.14 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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  • 2017
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    The Real War of Thrones

    The Real War of Thrones

    7.70 2017 HD

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

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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

    6.50 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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    Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

    Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

    5.30 2023 HD

    Love, conflict, family - nobody's done it better. Acting legends reflect on the greatest writer who ever lived – and the dangerous, exciting...

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  • 2022
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    Ancient Apocalypse

    Ancient Apocalypse

    6.43 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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  • 2022
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    Le Siècle des icônes

    Le Siècle des icônes

    7.00 2022 HD

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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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    Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    7.20 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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  • 2024
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    Tsunami: Race Against Time

    Tsunami: Race Against Time

    7.80 2024 HD

    The definitive story of the deadly 2004 tsunami as it travels from country to country, with unseen archive video and untold stories of survival.

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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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  • 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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  • 2019
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    History Uncovered

    History Uncovered

    7.20 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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  • 2019
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    Chasing the Moon

    Chasing the Moon

    8.40 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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  • 2023
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    The Rise and Fall of the Maya

    The Rise and Fall of the Maya

    9.00 2023 HD

    Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are unearthing new clues that transform long held...

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  • 2023
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    Unter Deutschen - Zwangsarbeit im NS-Staat

    Unter Deutschen - Zwangsarbeit im NS-Staat

    9.00 2023 HD

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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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  • 2024
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    Libération(s), dans la joie et la douleur

    Libération(s), dans la joie et la douleur

    8.00 2024 HD

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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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