George III - The Genius of The Mad King | BBC Documentary

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George III - The Genius of The Mad King
The secrets of George III revealed as Robert Hardman explores his private files. George III may be mostly remembered for his madness but these documents reveal another side to him. After 200 years under lock and key, all the personal papers of one of our most important monarchs are for the first time seeing the light of day. In the first documentary to gain extensive access to the Royal Archives, Robert Hardman sheds fascinating new light on George III, Britain's longest reigning king. George III may be chiefly remembered for his madness, but these private documents reveal a monarch who was a political micromanager and a restless patron of science and the arts, an obsessive traveller who never left southern England yet toured the world in his mind and a man who was driven (sometimes to distraction) by his sense of duty to his family and his country.




 George III - The Genius of The Mad King
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min 
 Subtitles: English 
 Language: English 

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Emperor of the Seas | Documentary Film

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Emperor of the Seas 
Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming government sponsored a series of seven naval expeditions led by Zheng He and the greatest armada the world had ever seen. Emperor Yongle designed them to establish a Chinese presence, impose imperial control over trade and impress foreign countries. With a many as 300 ships and 28,000 crewman, Zheng He s ships traveled to Southeast Asia, the Persian Gulf and as far as Africa, liberally dispensing gifts of Chinese porcelain and silk and in return receiving rich gifts from his hosts. Now, six centuries later, the truth about Zheng He s voyages are finally being told. Who is this extraordinary man who led seven voyages around the world eight decades before Columbus discovered America? And what was the true purpose of his voyages?




 Emperor of the Seas
 Production: Discovery Channel
 Duration: 52:00 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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Joan of Arc God's Warrior (2015) | Documentary

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Joan of Arc God's Warrior
Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure - a female warrior in an age that believed women couldn't fight, let alone lead an army. But Joan was driven by faith, and today more than ever we are acutely aware of the power of faith to drive actions for good or ill. Since her death, Joan has become an icon for almost everyone - the left and the right, Catholics and Protestants, traditionalists and feminists. But where in all of this is the real Joan - the experiences of a teenage peasant girl who achieved the seemingly impossible? Through an astonishing manuscript, we can hear Joan's own words at her trial, and as Helen unpicks Joan's story and places her back in the world that she inhabited, the real human Joan emerges.




 Joan of Arc God's Warrior
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 40:00 min
 Language: English

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The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear | BBC Documentary

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The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear
It is one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries in art: what happened on the December night in 1888 when Vincent van Gogh took a blade to his own ear?
Jeremy Paxman joins art sleuth Bernadette Murphy on her amazing quest to discover the truth - what exactly did the artist do, why did he do it and who was the unknown girl he is said to have handed his severed ear to, her real identity kept secret by her family for over a century? It is an event that defines van Gogh, who created his greatest masterpieces including the sunflowers at the same moment as suffering mental torture, but what are the real facts?
This revealing detective story travels from Vincent's home in the south of France to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and uncovers key evidence hidden in a Californian library that has created an art-world sensation, as we finally solve the mystery of Van Gogh's ear.




 The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 58:00 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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The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone | Documentary

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The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone
examine new forensic techniques being used to study Dr. Livingstone’s unpublished field diary, which reveals he was witness to the brutal massacre of slaves at the hands of their traders. The writings in this diary suggest Livingstone was far different from the legend that surrounds him.
Dr. David Livingstone is the renowned British explorer, whom American journalist Henry Morton Stanley greeted with the now famous words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume.” When New York Herald reporter Stanley found him in a small African village on November 10, 1871, the reclusive Livingstone had lost contact with the outside world for six years. In the late 19th century in Victorian Britain, Livingstone was a popular hero of the era, a celebrated explorer, Christian missionary, staunch abolitionist and pioneering doctor, who developed a treatment for malaria. But was he really the national hero people made him out to be? During his last expedition, Livingstone witnessed and documented an event that changed the course of history. His account of the mass slaughter of the village Nyangwe, recorded in his journal brought back by Stanley, horrified the American and British public and ultimately led to the end of the African slave trade, and closing down the world’s last open slave market.  But Livingstone may not have told the entire story of the massacre in his journal. To discover the truth behind the massacre, follows a team of experts, led by Adrian Wisnicki of Nebraska University, as they attempt to decipher Livingstone’s original field diary – recently discovered – to determine what really happened in Nyangwe.


 The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone
 Production: PBS
 Duration: 47:00 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Changed the Modern World (2016) | BBC Documentary

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James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Changed the Modern World
Professor Iain Stewart reveals the story behind the Scottish physicist who was Einstein's hero; James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell's discoveries not only inspired Einstein, but they helped shape our modern world - allowing the development of radio, TV, mobile phones and much more.
Despite this, he is largely unknown in his native land of Scotland. Scientist Iain Stewart sets out to change that, and to celebrate the life, work and legacy of the man dubbed 'Scotland's Forgotten Einstein'.




 James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Changed the Modern World
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min
 Language: English

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Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time | BBC Documentary

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Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
The story of the most elegant and powerful theory in science - Albert Einstein's general relativity.
When Einstein presented his formidable theory in November 1915, it turned our understanding of gravity, space and time completely on its head. Over the last 100 years, general relativity has enabled us to trace the origins of the universe to the Big Bang and to appreciate the enormous power of black holes.
To mark the 100th anniversary of general relativity, this film takes us inside the head of Einstein to witness how his idea evolved, giving new insights into the birth of a masterpiece that has become a cornerstone of modern science. This is not as daunting as it sounds - because Einstein liked to think in pictures. The film is a magical visual journey that begins in Einstein's young mind, follows the thought experiments that gave him stunning insights about the physical world, and ultimately reaches the extremes of modern physics.



 Inside Einstein's Mind The Enigma of Space and Time
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 58:00 min
 Language: English

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The Day Hitler Died (2016) | Documentary Film

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The Day Hitler Died
As Russian and Allied forces surrounded Berlin in 1945, Hitler took refuge in a bunker beneath the crumbling city. What exactly happened in that claustrophobic labyrinth has long been a mystery, until now. Relive Hitler's final days, detailed through never-before-seen interviews with the men and women who were with him during those last desperate moments. These recordings, lost for decades, but recently found in an archive in Pittsburgh, tell the untold story of the Fuhrer's final days, in the words of the people who were there.
Adolf Hitler's last days are reconstructed via remarks from those with him, including Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann; Traudl Junge, his secretary; and Willi Johannmeier, his army adjutant. The interviews were conducted in 1948 by Judge Michael Musmanno, who presided over the Einsatzgruppen military tribunal at Nuremberg.



 The Day Hitler Died 
 Production: FineStripe Productions
 Duration: 47:00 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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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 Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code | Documentary

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The Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code
tells the incredible story of Alan Turing, a genius British mathematician and yet socially awkward man who cracked the encoded communications of the Nazis, thus making it possible D-Day landings! THE MAN WHO CRACKED THE NAZI CODE gives a fresh look at a whole section of the history of the Second World War and discovery that a close link exists between the Allied victory and the invention of the computer resulting in cracking the encoded communications of the Germans thus changing the course of history.




 The Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code
 Production: ARTE
 Duration: 52:09 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy (2015) | Documentary

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What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
A poignant, thought-provoking account of friendship and the toll of inherited guilt, WHAT OUR FATHERS DID explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of very high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitudes toward their fathers. Eminent human rights lawyer Philippe Sands investigates the complicated connection between the two, and even delves into the story of his own grandfather who escaped the same town where their fathers carried out mass killings. The three embark on an emotional journey together, as they travel through Europe and converse about the past, examining the sins of their fathers and providing a unique view of the father-son relationship, ultimately coming to some very unexpected and difficult conclusions.

 What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
 Directed By: David Evans
 Duration: 01:30:42 min
 Subtitles:
 Language: English


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Finding Vivian Maier | HD Documentary Film

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Finding Vivian Maier
Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Since buying her work by chance at auction, amateur historian John Maloof has crusaded to put this prolific photographer in the history books. Maier's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.

 Finding Vivian Maier
 Directed By: Charlie Siskel, John Maloof
 Duration: 40:00 min
 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Czech, Hebrew
 Language: English


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Living With Lincoln (2015) | Documentary Film

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Living With Lincoln
In the years following the Civil War, ancestors of documentary filmmaker Peter Kunhardt collected a treasure trove of photographs, rare books and other artifacts relating to Abraham Lincoln. Over the decades, their descendants carried on the work, helping to preserve an essential part of America’s past. LIVING WITH LINCOLN explores his family’s physical and emotional connection to the president, revealing a personal side of the immortal leader through a modern-day journey of discovery, obsession, depression and despair.  How five generations of one American family have shared the “glorious burden” of collecting, preserving and documenting a vital archive relating to Abraham Lincoln.

 Living With Lincoln
 Production: HBO
 Duration: 01:07:32 min
 Subtitles:
 Language: English


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The Hitch - Christopher Hitchens | Documentary

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The Hitch - Christopher Hitchens
Kristoffer Seland Hellesmark was looking for a documentary on Christopher Hitchens to watch, but could never find one. So, after waiting a while, he said to himself, “Why don’t I just make one?” The result is the 80-minute documentary about Hitchens, lovingly entitled The Hitch, which features clips from his speeches and interviews.





 The Hitch - Christopher Hitchens
 Production: Kristoffer Seland Hellesmark
 Duration: 01:22:36 min
 Subtitles: English
 Language: English

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The Salt of the Earth | HD Documentary

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The Salt of the Earth
For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project, which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Sebastião Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer.

 The Salt of the Earth
 Directed By: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
 Duration: 40:00 min
 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
 Language: English


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Room 237 | HD Documentary film

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Room 237
Many movies lend themselves to dramatic interpretations, but none as rich and far ranging as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. In LA filmmaker Rodney Ascher's ROOM 237, we hear from people who have developed far-reaching theories and believe they have decoded the hidden symbols and messages buried in the late director's film. Carefully examining The Shining inside out, and forwards and backwards, ROOM 237 is equal parts captivating, provocative and pure pleasure. It gives voice to the fans and scholars who espouse these theories, reworking the film to match their ideas and intercutting it with layers of dreamlike imagery to illustrate their streams of consciousness. Sometimes outrageous, always engaging, the words of the interviewees are given full force by Ascher's compelling vision.







 Room 237
 Directed By: Rodney Ascher 
 Duration: 01:43:03 min
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 Language: English

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Bettie Page Reveals All | HD Documentary Film

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Bettie Page Reveals All
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mark Mori's Bettie Page Reveals All is an intimate look at one of the world's most recognized sex symbols, told in her own words for the first time. In Mori's alluring documentary, the real Bettie Page emerges from the veil of myth and rumor via audio interviews taped a decade prior to her death in 2008. With earthy, razor sharp wit, Bettie tells her life story -- from humble beginnings as one of six children in an impoverished southern family, to high school salutatorian, to scandalous 50s pin-up model, to shocking retirement in 1957 at the peak of her modeling career. Sharing rare details about her short-lived first marriage and many torrid affairs, this keen insider's glimpse follows Bettie through decades of broken marriages, born-again Christianity, and bouts of mental illness, before her ultimate return to the public eye in the early 90's, unaware of her cult status. Ranked by Forbes in 2012 as one of the top ten posthumous celebrity earners, Bettie and her enduring legacy continue to flourish.

 Bettie Page Reveals All
 Directed By: Mark Mori 
 Duration: 01:41:28 min
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 Language: English


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The Life of Buddha | BBC Documentary Film

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The Life of Buddha
The history of Buddhism is the story of one man's spiritual journey to Enlightenment, and of the teachings and ways of living that developed from it.
Siddhartha Gautama - The Buddha
By finding the path to Enlightenment, Siddhartha was led from the pain of suffering and rebirth towards the path of Enlightenment and became known as the Buddha or 'awakened one'.



 The Life of Buddha
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 49:57 min
 Language: English




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