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The Emperor’s Japanese Tram Girls
Hiroshima, 1945. The Emperor’s Tram Girls were trained to drive tens of thousands of Japanese troops through the town. The drivers were young, pretty, bubbly girls who were picked for their winning personalities. They had their whole lives ahead of them. Then the bomb dropped.
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The Shape of the Future
The constant war in Israel/Palestine breaks my heart. I have my own opinions, but rather than take sides and get caught up in a debate that seems to have no end in sight: I will take this opportunity to present a documentary that has one goal in mind: PEACE. Peace that does not threaten the [...]
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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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Putin 2012: Tsar or Reformer?
Russian society has known heartache forever: first there were the Tsars: mighty kings who made the common folk toil on the land for peanuts. Then, Lenin and Trotsky brought about the age of the Communist Revolution and a movement that was supposed to give the power back to the everyman. Instead, we got 75 years [...]
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Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes
This documentary reveals the secret story behind one of the greatest intellectual feats of World War II, a feat that gave birth to the digital age.
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Triple Cross: Bin Laden’s Spy In America
This is the true story of Egyptian spy Ali Mohamed. Ali infiltrated U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA and FBI, and joined the U.S. Army. At the same time, he took orders from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization and later joined forces with al Qaeda.
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Tank on the Moon
This documentary explores the Lunokhod program, the story of the secret remote robots Russia built and operated on the Moon’s surface more than three decades ago.
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The Real West
The myths, legends and realities of the Old West come alive in The Real West.
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The Empire State Building Shall Rise
The Empire State Building should never have been built. Constructed during the Great Depression, this icon of the New York skyline stood as the tallest building in the world for over 40 years. After September 11th, 2001 it once again became the tallest building in New York. It has withstood storms, plane crashes, and King [...]
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When Bankers Were Good
This documentary examines the Victorian financiers – including Samuel Gurney and Natty Rothschild.
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RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Writer-director Shane O Sullivan conducts an exhaustive investigation, into how and why Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.
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The American Future: A History
Simon Schama travels through America to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what was at stake during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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