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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gert Westphal

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

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

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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Cast: Robert McNamara

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

In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aubrey Powell

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephanie Leonidas

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jim Lovell

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ami Ayalon

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alika Del Sol

Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lillian Michelson

The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bettie Page

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Soulat

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Cast: Ériq Ebouaney

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Thomas Balcerski

This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Carlyle

A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David McCullough

Journalist Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Graham Hancock

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bruno Solo

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sergei Khrushchev

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?

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ananda Lewis

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Campbell Scott

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Cast: Elsa Lepoivre

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Juliet Stevenson

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

From legendary John Ward, immortalized in fiction as Jack Sparrow, and English explorer Francis Drake; branded Pirates by their enemies but heroes by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billy Boyd

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....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucien Jean-Baptiste

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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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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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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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cédric Tourbe

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Cast: Pierre Tissot

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The sun revolves around the earth - for more than 1500 years, this world view of the Greek astronomer Ptolemy was seen as an incontrovertible truth....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rufus Beck