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What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.

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Cast: Aidan McArdle

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

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

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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The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...

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The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sophie Okonedo

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

On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, storming the beaches of Normandy. This...

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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

A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Packham

Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Schwarz

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Phyllis Bhana

On 16 July 1212, a Crusader army made up of Castilians, Aragonese and Navarrese (but also French, English and Germans) confronted the army of the...

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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

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Farwell

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Matthew Brenher

The sinking of the Titanic sent shockwaves around the world and started debates that continue to this day. But new, explosive evidence from the most...

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gong Meng Lin

Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Sutherland

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rufus Beck

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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British show about possible x-files style stories.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Robinson

Dr Xand van Tulleken and archaeologist Raksha Dave tell the brutal story of one of the most bloody and savage conquests in English history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Xand van Tulleken

How the Silk Road Made the World 3 x 60' NHNZ/CCTV (China Central Television) The Silk Road is one of humanity’s greatest enterprises. For...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Parker

Jonathan Roberge dives into the world of Montréal crime during the 1957-1977 period, when the city saw a prolonged war between the police and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Roberge

This remarkable science-history series investigates the blistering pace of human endeavour in space exploration, computing, energy, resources, Earth...

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Cast: Shalin Naik

A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole....

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Cast: Sergio Zavoli

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A documentary which explores the remarkable parallels between the careers of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill, as well as their personal rivalry...

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Award-winning journalist and author Chris Masters investigates the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s and the events that laid the foundation for Australia...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Masters

A lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experiments. As the material of the lectures should be...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alexander Lippisch