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Maralinga Tjarutja

2020

Maralinga Tjarutja

2020
The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
The Astronot

2018

The Astronot

2018
8
It was 1969 and America was embarking on the biggest adventure known to man - a voyage to the moon. Daniel too was pursuing the unknown; leaving the path of isolation he had traveled for so many years to embrace the love of another. The only question was would he be able maintain that road to glory or would he veer off course never to be seen again...
Explosion 1812

2012

Explosion 1812

2012
On April 27, 1813, American forces defeated the British at York (present-day Toronto) and captured the capital of Upper Canada - but not before suffering their own losses. History Television's Explosion 1812 looks at the Battle of York and unearths new evidence around this lesser-known event from the War of 1812.
Diego Rivera: I Paint What I See

1992

Diego Rivera: I Paint What I See

1992
8
The first biographical film on the famed Mexican artist, traces his life from childhood through his Cubist period, his leading role in the Mexican mural renaissance, his fame as a muralist in the USA, and his later years. The film explores Rivera's life and work, including his stormy relationship with Frida Kahlo and the destruction of his famous mural at Rockefeller Center. Shot on location in Mexico and the United States, the film includes a remarkable collection of archival film and photographs, much of which has not been seen before. The text is drawn from the writings of Rivera and Kahlo and from other historical texts. Using Rivera's own words, this richly detailed film brings to life the difficulty he faced in his transition from studio artist to public and political artist, and the conflicts that arose from that point onward.
The Nine Muses

2010

The Nine Muses

2010
5.6
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.
The Phantom of Spandau

2019

The Phantom of Spandau

2019
6.5
Idriss Gabel and Marie Calvas are the grandson and granddaughter of Rudolf Hess's last chaplain in Berlin-Spandau prison. Hess (1894-1987), a fanatical anti-Semite, was Adolf Hitler's deputy in Nazi Germany and personally participated in the formulation of the Nuremberg Race Laws. As a French military chaplain, Charles Gabel was the only person authorized to speak with Hess in private for almost ten years. In this documentary, his grandchildren ask: What kind of relationship did their grandfather have with this member of the Nazi leadership? Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1946 as part of the Nuremberg Trials of major war criminals. He served his sentence throughout the Cold War as the sole inmate of the huge Spandau Prison. In 1987, at the age of 93, he took his own life.
Apollo's Daring Mission

2018

Apollo's Daring Mission

2018
5.5
Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch run-through. In disarray, and threatened by the prospect of a Soviet Union victory in the space race, NASA decided upon a radical and risky change of plan: turn Apollo 8 from an earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint to the moon while relying on untried new technologies. Fifty years after the historic mission, the Apollo 8 astronauts and engineers recount the feats of engineering that paved the way to the moon.
700 Feet Down

2021

700 Feet Down

2021
The history of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is explored through interviews with those who witnessed the collapse, as well as divers' exploration of the underwater wreckage.
The Cowboy Hat Movie

2020

The Cowboy Hat Movie

2020
One cowboy embarks on a quest to find the ultimate cowboy hat while exploring the origin, evolution, quintessential stylings, and solidification of this iconic American West expression.
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

1983

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

1983
6.3
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1963

David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1963
The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...
Talking to the Air: The Horses of the Last Forbidden Kingdom

2016

Talking to the Air: The Horses of the Last Forbidden Kingdom

2016
8.7
The world’s most magnificent horsemen face an unsure future in one of the planet’s last great equine cultures. The Tibetan Buddhist region of Mustang in the High Himalaya is the Last Forbidden Kingdom and their unique heritage and remarkable spiritual bond with the horse is under threat. In a land where a man’s wealth can still be measured in horses, death defying races are the colorful back-drop for this story of the ascent of civilization in the high Himalaya. With lush cinematography, and insightful intervieww, the film also recounts the little known story of the CIA’s covert operations in Mustang, and features rare archival footage of the Dalai Lama’s flight on horseback over the Himalaya. The scholarly and perceptive voices of Dr. Sienna Craig - author of "Horses Like Lightning" and Mikel Dunham, author of "Buddha's Warriors" turn this lens to issues of globalization, fragile border politics and the precarious future for Mustang’s distinctive equine culture.
T. S. Eliot: The Search for Happiness

2019

T. S. Eliot: The Search for Happiness

2019
1
The story of the relationship between writer, literary critic and publisher T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) and his second wife Esmé Valerie Fletcher (1926-2012).
The Secret History of The White House

2019

The Secret History of The White House

2019
Piecing together information from secret sources and a two-hundred-year evolution of the White House, investigative journalists and government insiders weigh in on the mystery of an unusual white box and a top-secret construction project dubbed the "Big Dig" that took place outside of the West Wing from 2007-2012. Using little known images, previously classified material and detailed graphics, the search for truth reveals not only what secrets might lay below the White House, but how their existence could affect democracy as we know it.
While They Watched

2015

While They Watched

2015
7.5
Documentary about North Korea, set in the future after the regime has collapsed. Harnessing the power of hindsight the film questions the morality of the current inaction by regional and global powers towards the North Korean dictatorship.
Nero's Golden House

2001

Nero's Golden House

2001
Still We Rise

2022

Still We Rise

2022
50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into a year of protest and revolutionary change for First Nations people.
Upstairs Inferno

2015

Upstairs Inferno

2015
5.6
On June 24, 1973, a gay bar in New Orleans called the Up Stairs Lounge was deliberately set on fire — an event that, for over 40 years, was considered the "Largest Gay Mass Murder in U.S. History."
Freedom of NC

2021

Freedom of NC

2021
6.5
14 yr old Sarah Jones portrays the daily struggles of a little slave girl until she sees the light! Sarah will be compared to all the greatest female abolitionists of our time!
Television Under the Swastika

1999

Television Under the Swastika

1999
6.8
A history of Nazi television programming and technology, from 1935 to 1944.