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  • 2024
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    Einstein and the Bomb

    Einstein and the Bomb

    6.00 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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Aidan McArdle

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  • 2024
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    Apollo 13: Survival

    Apollo 13: Survival

    7.20 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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Jim Lovell

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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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Zahi Hawass

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  • 2003
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    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

    7.70 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Robert McNamara

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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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Patrick Stewart

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  • 2012
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    The Gatekeepers

    The Gatekeepers

    6.94 2012 HD

    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

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.72 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Samuel L. Jackson

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  • 1985
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    8.29 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Claude Lanzmann

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Gert Westphal

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  • 2024
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    Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences

    Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences

    8.20 2024 HD

    It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Aubrey Powell

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    Bad Faith

    Bad Faith

    10.00 2024 HD

    On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our history. Armed militiamen and QAnon followers made...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Peter Coyote

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  • 2022
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    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates

    7.81 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Jean Soulat

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    Christspiracy

    Christspiracy

    9.00 2024 HD

    The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit from their exploitation, as informed by world...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Kip Andersen

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  • 2020
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    Prehistoric Worlds

    Prehistoric Worlds

    9.00 2020 HD

    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

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  • 2008
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    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10

    6.00 2008 HD

    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

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  • 2022
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    The Rise and Fall of the Etruscans

    The Rise and Fall of the Etruscans

    10.00 2022 HD

    For eight centuries, between the 9th and 1st century BC, the Etruscans, inhabitants of the Italian peninsula, were one of the most powerful peoples...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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  • 2017
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    Secrets of Christ's Tomb

    Secrets of Christ's Tomb

    7.50 2017 HD

    We follow leading experts on a quest to unlock the mysteries surrounding the tomb of Christ, using the latest scientific techniques to restore the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Stefan Ashton Frank

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  • 2024
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    La belle histoire de Noël

    La belle histoire de Noël

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    Genre: Documentary

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    The Real War of Thrones

    The Real War of Thrones

    7.70 2024 HD

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

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Bruno Solo

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  • 2003
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    Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    7.11 2003 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Carlyle

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  • 1990
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    The Civil War

    The Civil War

    8.14 1990 HD

    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

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  • 2024
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    Ancient Apocalypse

    Ancient Apocalypse

    6.40 2024 HD

    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

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  • 2023
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    Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

    Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

    5.30 2023 HD

    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

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  • 2022
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    Le Siècle des icônes

    Le Siècle des icônes

    7.00 2022 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Elsa Lepoivre

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

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  • 2022
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    Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    7.20 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?

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ananda Lewis

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  • 2021
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    The Titans That Built America

    The Titans That Built America

    7.80 2021 HD

    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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  • 2024
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    Pirates: Behind the Legends

    Pirates: Behind the Legends

    6.50 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Billy Boyd

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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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Adolf Hitler

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    Tsunami: Race Against Time

    Tsunami: Race Against Time

    7.80 2024 HD

    The definitive story of the deadly 2004 tsunami as it travels from country to country, with unseen archive video and untold stories of survival.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2020
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    Ku Klux Klan: An American Story

    Ku Klux Klan: An American Story

    6.60 2020 HD

    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

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  • 2023
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    1942, un monde en guerre

    1942, un monde en guerre

    8.30 2023 HD

    Genre: Documentary

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Cédric Tourbe

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2023
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    History Uncovered

    History Uncovered

    7.20 2023 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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  • 2023
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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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  • 2023
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    Unter Deutschen - Zwangsarbeit im NS-Staat

    Unter Deutschen - Zwangsarbeit im NS-Staat

    9.00 2023 HD

    Genre: Documentary

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Sergei Khrushchev

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