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  • 2024
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    Einstein and the Bomb

    Einstein and the Bomb

    6.02 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

    7.70 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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    Apollo 13: Survival

    Apollo 13: Survival

    7.08 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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  • 1985
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    8.30 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 2003
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    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

    7.68 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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  • 2012
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    The Gatekeepers

    The Gatekeepers

    6.97 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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  • 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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  • 2022
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    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates

    7.70 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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  • 2012
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    Titanic's Final Mystery

    Titanic's Final Mystery

    7.60 2012 HD

    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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  • 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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  • 1982
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    Genocide

    Genocide

    7.38 1982 HD

    The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust...

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  • 2019
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    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    8.00 2019 HD

    In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed...

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  • 2024
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    Olympics! The French Games

    Olympics! The French Games

    7.70 2024 HD

    27 Olympic and Paralympic champions, aged 20 to 100, share their stories in this Mickaël Gamrasni documentary narrated by actress Marion...

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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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  • 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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    Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln

    Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln

    1 2024 HD

    An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never...

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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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  • 2003
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    Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    7.13 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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  • 2022
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    Ancient Apocalypse

    Ancient Apocalypse

    6.50 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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  • 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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  • 2022
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    Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    7.17 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 2024
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    Pirates: Behind the Legends

    Pirates: Behind the Legends

    6.33 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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  • 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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  • 2023
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    Antigang

    Antigang

    8.00 2023 HD

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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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  • 2022
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    Histoire populaire des impôts

    Histoire populaire des impôts

    7.50 2022 HD

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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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  • 2023
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    Odyssey: Behind the Myth

    Odyssey: Behind the Myth

    1 2023 HD

    Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps of Ulysses, also known by his Greek name...

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  • 2024
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    Verbotenes Begehren

    Verbotenes Begehren

    8.00 2024 HD

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    Unter Deutschen - Zwangsarbeit im NS-Staat

    Unter Deutschen - Zwangsarbeit im NS-Staat

    9.00 2023 HD

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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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    Geheimsache Kopernikus

    Geheimsache Kopernikus

    8.00 2023 HD

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  • 2020
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    The Great Acceleration

    The Great Acceleration

    7.00 2020 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Greek Island Odyssey

    Greek Island Odyssey

    7.80 2020 HD

    Historian Bettany Hughes has embarked on an epic, personal journey. Inspired by Homer's The Odyssey, she will sail the unpredictable Mediterranean...

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