Dan Snow and Raksha Dave investigate how the plague devastated Britain 700 years ago, killing around three million people across the country. In the first edition, Dan heads to Melcombe Regis in Dorset as he traces the spread of the plague and finds out how the disease reached Britain's shores in 1348. At The Old Operating Theatre in London, Raksha witnesses the horrific symptoms of this deadly disease and the terrifying outcome for those who fell victim to it, and also investigates the recent discovery of mass graves beneath a tranquil London square.
A documentary on the the ethnic Vlachs from Herzegovina, who settled at the bottom of Mount Žumberak in northwestern Croatia and quickly became one of the main lines of defence of the Habsburg Monarchy against the Ottoman Empire, using what were, at the time, previously unseen methods of guerilla warfare.
In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy working at a NASA warehouse has his own little passion project: the invention of the first urinal net.
Set in the early years of the Xinhai Revolution, the film tells the story of a group of revolutionaries who, in their pursuit of awakening the masses and advancing China’s democratic movement, risk everything—including their lives. Through sacrifice, courage, and unyielding conviction, they write a stirring chapter of heroism in the history of China's democratic revolution.
Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic 'Datta', Banamali proposes his daughter Bijoya's hand to his childhood friend's son, Narendra. But, Bijoya is attracted to Bilas and has always been skeptical about Narendra. However, when Bijoya meets Narendra, her feelings take a turn towards the unexpected.
Austria, 1945. Together with her young granddaughter, Grandmother lives in a lonely hut in the mountains, where one day she is surprised by two Soviet deserters and confronted with her prejudices against them.
Nora is consumed with solving the murder of a young woman, Elfreda, that happened in her hometown of Harbour Grace in 1870. The murder has become a symbol for Nora of how long injustice has persisted for women, including in today's society. As a professor of gender inequality, she witnesses the milestones women have made over centuries that are now being obliterated. Nora returns to Newfoundland and from her research finds an article in the Express newspaper of 1870 describing the horrific murder of Elfreda Pike, a sixteen-year-old girl who was found stabbed. Supported by her colleague Vivian and a new friend Zoe, Nora decides to write a book and continues to hunt down details that will solve Elfreda's murder and give her a voice 150 years later. Nora's book launch of Elfreda discloses a historic letter she reads from a Constable Furey, who headed the investigation, and shockingly confesses on his deathbed 50 years later that he was the man who killed Elfreda Pike.
In rural Ireland in the 1840s, a land dispute makes a man kill his brother. He buries the body at the bottom of his field but soon, his crops begin to die. This earthy horror blends the pagan traditions of the English folk horror cycle with more surreal and paranoid sensibilities, viscerally placing you into the protagonist’s deteriorating mind.
For Millennia, a secret world of otherwordly entities have existed, thrived and conspired against us from within Earth's depths. Concealed in global cave systems, mountain bunkers, Antarctic caverns and constructs deep beneath the oceans, these malevolent beings have spawned a new race of Alien-human hybrids and have been using thought control to manipulate humanity. They are indestructible, unwavering and are fulfilling their objective to extract us. Earth is no longer ours and maybe it never was.
After years of overproduction, the Reagan administration unloads over 500 million pounds of surplus cheese on the American public in the 1980s. The pungent dairy product comes to be known as 'Government Cheese.'
When a failing high school student is asked to go to his professor's office hours, he ends up traveling back in time to experience all the hardships Chicanos endured.
A visually stunning and thought-provoking biopic documenting the life and career of renowned photographer Linda Troeller. Her work explores the spiritual properties of water and the intricate aspects of female sexuality. The film presents a mesmerizing narrative that gracefully blends elements of personal discovery, artistry, and feminism.
In the 1800s in colonial-era Punjab, Jeona Maurh takes up arms to avenge his bandit brother's death. He gradually takes on the land tax mafia working in cahoots with the native kings and the British.
When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabble in great love and an open relationship between his hometown of Zurich and her adopted Rome.