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This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.

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Cast: Patrick Stewart

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

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

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.

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Cast: Zahi Hawass

Recently discovered footage reveals the secret history of NASA's first landing on the moon, and using this brand-new evidence, former astronauts and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Erik Thompson

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

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

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

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simone Signoret

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

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

The story of a Franco-Belgian family living in Japan from 1927 to 1947, a time of prosperity and fortune, but also of political turbulence and war.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbara Grau

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Larry Sanger

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Cast: Léonie Simaga

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Cast: Benno Fürmann

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Cast: Corinne Masiero

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.

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Cast: Adolf Hitler

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Cast: Sergio Zavoli

British show about possible x-files style stories.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Robinson

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

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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Cast: Rufus Beck

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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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

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

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Cast: Pierre Tissot

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shalin Naik

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

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Cast: Chris Masters

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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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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

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