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The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler
This documentary offers an intimate look at one of the world’s most wicked minds. First aired in the 1950′s, The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler includes contemporary interviews with Hitler’s sister, Paula Wolf and a prisoner who was once incarcerated with Hitler.
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Charles Manson Then and Now
Charles Manson was jailed in 1970 after leading a cult of followers and murdering innocent victims, including the wife and unborn child of Hollywood director Roman Polanski. Manson has not left prison since 1970: the world has changed but as he? In this truly disturbing documentary, we catch up with Charles Manson and see what [...]
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Gandhi’s Children
Gandhi’s Children is not a documentary about Gandhi’s next of kin. It is a documentary about his legacy: on India. It is a documentary about where the children of India find themselves today: many decades after Gandhi’s assassination.
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D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker
This documentary film chronicles the life of publisher D.M. Bennett. D.M. Bennett was a nineteenth-century American editor of the “blasphemous” New York City free-thought periodical “The Truth Seeker”.
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The Hitler Family
Hitler was obsessively secretive about his family. This documentary has tracked down some of Hitler’s relatives who speak for the first time about living in the shadow of the Nazi dictator.
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Great Composers
This landmark series presents the lives and works of several musical giants from the Baroque era to the twentieth century. It examines the backgrounds, influences and relationships that make these composers part of the very fabric of the history of western music. Each composer’s life and work is presented through extensive performance sequences, and through interviews and comment from some of today’s greatest artists and most respected authorities.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Henry VIII’s six wives were players, not just pawns, in a high stakes political game. In this series Dr Starkey reveals them to be powerful individuals who showed great dignity when faced with exile from the King’s favour – or even the executioner’s axe.
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The Greatest Knight
Dr Saul David investigates the violent world of the medieval melee tournament. Unlike the better known joust, this was a brutal brawl with sharpened weapons, few rules, and one undisputed champion- William Marshal.
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Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia
Historian Christopher Clark re-examines the life and achievements of one of Germany’s most colourful and controversial leaders, Frederick the Great.
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Prince Among Slaves
This is a documentary about a African Prince who was sold into slavery trying to hold on to his way of life, trying to get back home.
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World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
Historian Professor David Reynolds re-assesses Stalin’s role in the life and death struggle between Germany and Russia in World War Two.
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Samurai
Mark Dacascos travels to Japan to trace the footsteps of the ultimate samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi.
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