Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS | Documentary Film

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Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Sebastian Junger and Emmy winner Nick Quested chronicle Syria’s descent into the unbridled chaos that allowed the rise of the Islamic State. Pulling from nearly 1,000 hours of visceral footage, they capture the Syrian war’s harrowing carnage, political and social consequences, and human toll, while painting an alarming picture of the west’s role in the creation of ISIS.
In a world where no one feels safe from the reach of radicalism and global terrorism, Sebastian Junger examines the failed state of Syria through the lens of his own experience. The violence that has produced millions of refugees flooding into Europe and widespread fear throughout the world is not an isolated civil war. It’s part of a geopolitical cycle. The root of all fear lies in the unknown, but within the context of Junger’s lifework, there is much to be revealed about Syria and the business of the Islamic State.

 Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
 Directed By: Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested
 Duration: 01:40:00 min
 Subtitles: English Built
 Language: English


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Titanic: The New Evidence (2017) Documentary

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Titanic: The New Evidence
Did a secret boiler room fire lead to the Titanic's tragic sinking?
This documentary draws on new evidence to reveal that a fire was raging in Titanic's boiler rooms before she left port, that it was kept secret and, it's now believed, that it led to the tragedy








 Titanic: The New Evidence 
 Production: Channel 4
 Duration: 47:00 min 
 Subtitles: Greek 
 Language: English 

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Armenian Genocide: 100 Years Later | Documentary Film

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Armenian Genocide: 100 Years Later
1915: After a succession of defeats, the Ottoman Empire entered the First World War. The state, which had already lost 80% of its European territory, collapsed. Nationalist ideology won over the Ottoman elite, revealing internal tensions across the Empire. The Armenians, who had been established in Eastern Anatolia for 3,000 years, rapidly became the enemy. Between April 1915 and July 1916, more than one million of them were deported and massacred. This was the first genocide in a century that would see more than its fair share. In Turkey, discussion of the subject has always been refused and concealed, the use of the word “genocide” forbidden. However, it is from within Turkish society itself that voices are now calling to be heard. This documentary provides a mouthpiece for two key people that could not be further apart : Hasan Cemal, a Turk, and grandson of one of the perpetrators; and Fetiye Cetin, a Turkish Armenian and granddaughter of one of the victims. Together, they will lift the curtain on this bloody page in history, and speak of the urgent need for truth.




 Armenian Genocide: 100 Years Later
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 Duration: 52:00 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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Night Will Fall | Documentary Film

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Night Will Fall
Documentary that includes archive footage of a documentary made by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein about concentration camps.
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army cameramen, revealing for the first time the horror of what had happened
Using British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information's Sidney Bernstein collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to make a film that would provide evidence of the Nazi's unspeakable crimes. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US governments, the film was shelved. In this compelling documentary by André Singer (executive producer, The Act of Killing), the full story of the filming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein's project, which has now been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums, can finally be told




 Night Will Fall
 Directed By: André Singer 
 Duration: 01:13:00 min
 Language: English




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A Very British Deterrent | Documentary

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A Very British Deterrent
With Trident renewed for another generation, A Very British Deterrent tells the story of the remarkable events, eye-watering costs, power relationships and secret deals done half a century ago to secure Britain's very first submarine-launched nuclear missiles.
In today's turbulent world, it is a story that is more relevant than ever. At the height of the Cold War, a series of political and technical crises came close to leaving Britain without a nuclear weapon of its own. In a time of unprecedented international tension and with the world locked in a terrifying nuclear arms race, one small loch in Scotland became a crucial bargaining chip to keep Britain in the nuclear game.
Using the personal letters of prime ministers and presidents, eye-witness accounts and once-secret documents, this film explores how the British prime minister Harold Macmillan seized every opportunity to further Britain's nuclear ambitions, was prepared to trade a Scottish base for a new American weapon, and even jeopardised the crucial Anglo-American relationship to keep Britain an independent nuclear power.



 A Very British Deterrent
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 40:00 min
 Language: English

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The Boys of '36 | PBS Documentary

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The Boys of '36
The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Their unexpected victory, against not only the Ivy League teams of the East Coast but Adolf Hitler's elite German rowers, gave hope to a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Great Depression.






 The Boys of '36
 Production: PBS , American Experience 
 Duration: 53:00 min
 Language: English

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Little Heroes From The Warsaw Ghetto | Documentary

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Little Heroes From The Warsaw Ghetto
From 1942 until the elimination of the Warsaw ghetto in May 1943, children aged 6 to 15 left the ghetto and went into the Aryan part of the Nazi-occupied town. They survived in the city until 1945 by singing and selling cigarettes and newspapers to the Germans. They slept in ruined buildings, cemeteries, and stairwells. Five people tell the poignant story of the children during the war, children who never had a childhood, who were hunted down, merely because they were Jewish.They risked their lives every single day. And they survived to tell their story.




 Little Heroes From The Warsaw Ghetto
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 Duration: 59:06 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built 
 Language: English 

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37 Days | BBC Documentary Series

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37 Days
This documentary drama miniseries reveal the complex behind-closed-doors story of the countdown to World War One. In this political thriller, we follow the catastrophic chain of events that led from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28th June 1914, to the declaration of war between Britain and Germany on 4th August. Written by Mark Hayhurst, this tense and gripping serial, set within the corridors of power in both Whitehall and Berlin, tracks the crisis through the eyes of leading politicians struggling to prevent the world's first global war. 37 Days unlocks the mystery of the war’s origins, overturning assumptions about its inevitability, demonstrating that World War One was neither a chance happening nor was it a foregone conclusion.

 37 Days
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 43:31 min
 Subtitles: English , Spanish, Greek , Italian , Czech
 Language: English



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Episode 2: One Week in July


Episode 3: One Long Weekend 

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D.B. Cooper: Case Closed? | Documentary Series

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D.B. Cooper: Case Closed?
On November 24th, 1971 a man dressed in a suit and tie hijacked a Northwest Orient flight bound for Seattle, Washington. He said he had a bomb and demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. Once he got his ransom, the man jumped into the night, never to be seen again. In the more than 45 years since the epic heist, the FBI has looked at over a thousand potential suspects, but the questions remain: Who is D.B. Cooper? Did he die? Did he live? And is he still out there? Now, in this 2-part documentary series, viewers will go on the trail, gaining an unprecedented perspective from the FBI, including exclusive access to the evidence, while a former FBI agent and a crime journalist dive deep into the case revealing new information through exclusive interviews with nearly 20 experts and insiders.


 D.B. Cooper: Case Closed?
 Production: History Channel 
 Duration: 40:00 min
 Subtitles:
 Language: English



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Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape | Documentary

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Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape
October 14th 1943 occurred an event that shook the Nazi party to its core, when the Jewish prisoners at Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland staged a bloody break out.
Through brutally honest dramatisations and compelling first hand testimony, travel back with some of the last remaining survivors to reveal their extraordinary stories of courage, desperation and determination.





 Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape
 Production: National Geographic
 Duration: 43:00 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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Hillsborough (2016) | BBC Documentary

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Hillsborough 
Hillsborough is an in-depth, moving account of Britain's worst sporting disaster, in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised.
Beginning with that fateful day, 15 April 1989, the film details the horror of the tragedy, told through the experiences of those directly involved: fans, survivors, family members and police officers. Many speak publicly for the first time.
It captures the horror of the crush on the terraces, revealing the prejudices held by the police towards football fans. It exposes the police commanders' abject failure in leadership as the tragedy unfolded, and their deceit and determination to deflect responsibility for their failures in crowd management onto those who survived.
The documentary exposes the lack of dignity shown to bereaved families as they arrived in Sheffield to identify their loved ones laid out in body bags on a gymnasium floor. It considers the impact of the orchestrated vilification of fans in the media and, as a consequence, their public condemnation. By interviewing those involved, it recounts the 27-year campaign for justice fought on behalf of the 96 who died.


 Hillsborough
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 02:00:00 min
 Language: English

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McCullin | Documentary Film

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McCullin 
The documentary shows how Don McCullin created some of the latter twentieth-century's most iconic images of man's inhumanity to man. To many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer, often cited as an inspiration for today's photojournalists. For the first time, McCullin speaks candidly about his three-decade career covering wars and humanitarian disasters on virtually every continent and the photographs that often defined historic moments. Working at a critical time in global photojournalism, he witnessed the change of ethos to publishing and editorial freedom for newspapers to print what they wanted, free from constraints of advertisers. He brought the impact and reality of human conflict to the general reader, going on war assignments sometimes with only twenty rolls of film.He was shooting with a respect for image now disappearing from the digital age; and we have shot our film on 16mm in order to compliment his work.



 McCullin 
 Production: British Film Company
 Duration: 01:35:00 min
 Language: English

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Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton | BBC Documentary

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Children Saved from the Nazis: 
The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
This film, tells the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of the Nazis, bringing them by train to Britain. It is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler has invaded Czechoslovakia, threatening the lives of the Jewish population. Nicholas Winton, a young British stockbroker, decides he will do everything possible to save the lives of as many Jewish children as he can.
For nearly fifty years, Nicholas told no-one of his heroic deeds. His incredible story might never have come to light were it not for his wife who, fifty years later, found a suitcase in the attic containing a remarkable scrapbook full of documents and transport plans. Featuring Nicholas's final film interview before his death last year aged 106, dramatic reconstruction of events and the testimonies of the rescued children.



 Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:29 min
 Language: English

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One Day In Auschwitz (2015) | Documentary Film

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One Day In Auschwitz (2015)
Auschwitz-Birkenau was designed to kill. Four gas chambers murdered thousands at a time, belching out smoke and human ashes. Starvation, thirst, disease, and hard labor reduced the average lifespan to less than three months. More than 1-million people perished in the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
Seventy years after her liberation, Kitty Hart-Moxon makes a final return to Auschwitz-Birkenau to walk among the crumbling memorial with students Natalia and Lydia, who, at 16, are the same age now as she was then. As Kitty tells them her story of daily existence, themes begin to emerge: the ever-present threat of death, resilience, friendship, human strength, resisting the Nazis' constant lethal intent, and living like an animal while still remaining human. Natalia and Lydia ask questions; Kitty provides answers, passing her legacy to the next generation.






 One Day In Auschwitz
 Director: Steve Purcell
 Duration: 48:39 min
 Language: English

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Winston Churchill: A Giant In The Century | Documentary Film

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Winston Churchill: A Giant In The Century
Beyond the famous speeches and wealth of media material on the statesman, we span the century as seen from behind the scenes of an exceptional itinerary in order to capture the true dimension of one of the greatest European political figures. Like a thrilling biopic, by turn moving, funny and epic, our documentary is up to its hero.
Carefully remastered and colorized, the film draws from a wealth of visual and sound archives, to give an all-encompassing view of both the private and public man. Through the contrasted chapters of his existence, it thus offers a new, unseen before perspective on Churchill’s character and how he related to power and his contemporaries in order to lift the veil on a colourful, puzzling, paradoxical and captivating personality.

 Winston Churchill: A Giant In The Century
 Production: ARTE
 Duration: 01:31:34 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English


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The Great Train Robbery | BBC Documentary

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The Great Train Robbery
Perhaps the greatest trick the men behind the 1963 robbery ever pulled wasn't lifting over £3 million from a Glasgow-London mail train, but convincing the public of their near-mythical status.Fifty years on, this documentary looks at the truth behind the heist. Find out how two of the convicted robbers escaped, including, most famously Ronnie Biggs and three were never caught, escaping with the cash.See new interviews with Biggs' wife and the police officers who discovered their hidout. This documentary could be the last chance to find out the answers from the only people who really know what happened.



 The Great Train Robbery
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 44:55 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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Last Days in Vietnam | Documentary film

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Last Days in Vietnam
During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempted to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confronted a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens or risk being charged with treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they could. With time running out and the city under fire, an unlikely group of heroes emerged as Americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands.

 Last Days in Vietnam
 Production: PBS
 Duration: 01:53:10 min
 Subtitles: 
 Language: English

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Killing Kennedy | Documentary film

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Killing Kennedy
Based on the best-selling book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy begins in 1959, at major turning points for both the future president and his assassin. John F. Kennedy is in Washington, D.C., preparing to announce his presidential candidacy, while Lee Harvey Oswald finds himself in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, renouncing his U.S. citizenship. These two events start both men-one a member of one of the United States' most wealthy and powerful families, the other a disillusioned former Marine and Marxist-on a cataclysmic track that would alter the course of history. Throughout the film, we see their highs and lows, culminating in not one but two shocking deaths that stunned the nation.

 Killing Kennedy
 Production: National Geographic
 Duration: 01:26:49 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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Heroes of War Poland: Cracking Enigma | Documentary Film

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Heroes of War Poland: Cracking Enigma
Documentary takes up the story of how the British broke the “Enigma” encryption machines of the German armed forces using the knowledge gained by Poland in the 1930s. Working for the Cypher Bureau of the Polish General Staff, and using only encrypted messages, mathematician Marian Rejewski and two colleagues reverse-engineered an Enigma machine and built a “cryptologic bomb” to translate messages




 Heroes of War Poland: Cracking Enigma
 Production: History Channel
 Duration: 45:58 min 
 Subtitles: Greek Built 
 Language: English 

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Churchill's Betrayal of Poland | Documentary Film

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Churchill's Betrayal of Poland
The mysterious death of General Sikorski
What really happened on the 4th of July, 1943 in Gibraltar?
The film examines Sikorski's death and shows that there is little doubt that the crash in July of 1943 was an assassination attempt, in which the Russian or British intelligence and possibly even Stalin and Churchill are not entirely uninvolved. Detailed re-enactment, archival footage, interviews and stunning cinematography of the landscape of Gibraltar carry the film. Krakow, 2008: The body of one of Poland's most important statesmen is exhumed - General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile during World War II. His life was lost at sea on the 4th of July 1943, sixteen seconds after takeoff aboard a Liberator plane that mysteriously crashed. 70 years later the Polish prosecutors continue to investigate the case, which remains to this day an unsolved crime in history. The suspicion is murder. But who is the perpetrator? The plane crashed in British territory. The British claim it was an accident, but the files associated with the case have been classified until 2041.


 Churchill's Betrayal of Poland
 Production: NDR/arte, TVN S. A.
 Duration: 46:37 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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