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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aidan McArdle

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patrick Stewart

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Lanzmann

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zahi Hawass

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dylan Baker

The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sophie Okonedo

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid during the 1960s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andy Burse

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Matthew Brenher

On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, storming the beaches of Normandy. This...

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An entertaining documentary look at dinosaurs with Emmy Award-winning special effects, feature film clips and stills, commentary by leading...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Christopher Reeve

A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Packham

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nick Schatzki

A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Bracewell

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frédéric Wilner

The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. For decades, investigators and amateurs...

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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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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Malaterre

The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rufus Beck

Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Sutherland

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adolf Hitler

Jonathan Roberge dives into the world of Montréal crime during the 1957-1977 period, when the city saw a prolonged war between the police and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Roberge

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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British show about possible x-files style stories.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Robinson

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Parker

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sergio Zavoli

This remarkable science-history series investigates the blistering pace of human endeavour in space exploration, computing, energy, resources, Earth...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shalin Naik

Dr Xand van Tulleken and archaeologist Raksha Dave tell the brutal story of one of the most bloody and savage conquests in English history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Xand van Tulleken

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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A lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experiments. As the material of the lectures should be...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alexander Lippisch

Award-winning journalist and author Chris Masters investigates the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s and the events that laid the foundation for Australia...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Masters