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Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when ...

A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters — one who became his wife, and the other, his ...

A documentary about the development and spread of the virtual currency called Bitcoin.

When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.

Northern Italy, 17th century. In a monastery, a nun accused of witchcraft tries to seduce a young confessor who refuses to yield to his searing ...

Set against a backdrop of a turbulent, war-torn Ireland in the early 1920’s, this is a story of three people and the unfolding events from a ...

Snowbound and desperate, some of the Donner Party died of starvation. Some of them did not. They all sang.

The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous ...

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York’s Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against ...

While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most ...

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.

This biographical drama about Indonesia’s first president recounts his nationalist crusade to seize independence from Dutch colonial rule.

Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin ...

A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal ...

The year is 1173. England and France are at war. The destiny of the two great powers has never been so intertwined. As King Henry’s wife, ...

A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union’s legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of ...

With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two ...

WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you’ve never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that ...

The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in ...

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the “right ...

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious ...

In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful ...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

A band of pirates and a group of bandits fight to catch a gray whale that has swallowed a royal stamp.

Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world ...

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal ...

Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based ...

A female assassin during the Tang Dynasty begins to question her loyalties when she falls in love with one of her targets.