Fighting for Lincoln: The Wide Awakes
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2020
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This is the story of the 1860 election, and how a group of politically minded young men created a national political organization - the Wide Awakes - who marched by torch light and may have handed the Presidency to Abraham Lincoln
Battle at Shiloh: The Devil's Own Two Days
7.6
2012
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Our multi-Emmy award-winning production team takes you on a cinematic adventure through the legendary Battle of Shiloh. Seven characters, based on real first person accounts, weave multiple narrative threads of their own personal experiences during one of the bloodiest fights of the American Civil War. These stories reveal the dramatic and haunting effects of a fight without precedent in American history, where almost 24, 000 were left maimed, missing or dead in just two days. The 1862 Battle of Shiloh ended all illusions that the war would be ended quickly without great bloodshed, and signaled what it was to become: a bloody war of attrition that reduced scores of cities and towns to smoldering ruins, and left nearly three quarters of a million dead.
Mr. Lincoln's Army
8.8
2011
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For the past 150 years, the American imagination has been captured by the epic struggles between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac -- Mr. Lincolns Army. Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the war, and Antietam, the bloodiest single day, were both fought by these two great titans. The Army of the Potomac both suffered and succeeded under the command of both good and bad Generals -- George B. McClellan... John Pope... Ambrose Burnside... Joseph Hooker... George G. Meade and finally Ulysses S. Grant. The Army of the Potomac underwent many structural changes during its existence, and this insightful 60-minute, live-action documentary DVD analyzes the various uniforms, Caseys musket drill, camp life, food, weapons and equipment of the Eastern Theater Union Army Soldiers of the Civil War - Abraham Lincolns Army of the Potomac. As well, this documentary film explores several of the hardest fighting and most noteable Infantry organizations of the entire war -- The Iron Brigade, The Irish Brigade, The Vermont Brigade, The German Immigrants of the 11th Corps, and The Pennsylvania Bucktails.
April Morning
5.6
1988
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A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.
Coming For The King
5.8
2021
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Coming for the King is a fictional account of the events and the people that surrounded Martin Luther King Jr. from early 1963 until his untimely demise in the Spring of 1968.
Good Ol' Freda
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2013
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The story of Freda Kelly, a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: The Beatles. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end, Freda tells her tales for the first time in 50 years.
Ruby and Oswald
5.7
1978
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A docudrama about the events surrounding the assassination of the 35th United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, in 1963, based on eyewitness and other testimonies.
Sinking of the Lusitania
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2007
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The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff
Beyond the Da Vinci Code
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2005
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The Da Vinci Code has raised questions about religion art and faith across the globe. Now take a 2000 year journey through time to examine the surprising truths and controversial ideas set forth in Dan Browns worldwide bestseller.
The Bushbaby
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1969
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The young daughter of a park ranger in Kenya is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds, she decides to set the pet free, but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native, they try to resolve the situation together. Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head.
Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of World War II
7.8
2007
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6,000 young Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed gliders into battle. Only a few returned.
Ancient Gods of Egypt
5.2
2017
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Powerful and deadly, all-knowing, all-seeing, they were the original Masters of the Universe,prepare for the original Game of Thrones!
Yankee Buccaneer
5.8
1952
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Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.
The Slave
6.6
1962
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During the power struggle between Caesar and Crassus, a Roman centurion, who is the lost son of Spartacus, is dispatched to Crassus camp to observe his movements and keep Caesar informed.
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
6.9
1981
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Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
The Sacred City
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2016
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This British film was made about Canadian historian Dan Gibson, who has uncovered startling new archaeological evidence that Mecca was not the original Holy City of Islam.
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
7.1
1991
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True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors.
The Day Reagan Was Shot
5.8
2001
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The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard Crenna as Ronald Reagan.
The Trojan Horse
5.9
1961
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A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy.
Operation Thunderbolt
6.3
1977
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In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages. This movie is based on the true facts and follows the events since the flights take-off and until the hostages return to Israel.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later
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2020
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.
Chernobyl: Abyss
6.3
2021
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A story about a heroic fireman who worked as one of Chernobyl liquidators.
Donald and the Wheel
5.7
1961
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A father tells his son the invention of the wheel was most important; to prove it, the two hipsters visit the inventor caveman Donald Duck. There follows a survey of the progress of transportation, a digression into the basics of gear ratios, a series of live-action dancers to various styles of music inside a giant jukebox, an illustration of the use of wheels in power generation and space satellites, etc. Ultimately, Donald decides he doesnt want the responsibility, but certainly someone else would take on the task.
Kandahar Journals
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2017
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Kandahar Journals is the story of a photojournalist who reflects on the events behind his psychological transformation after covering front line combat in Kandahar, Afghanistan from 2006 to 2010. April 2006. Photojournalist Louie Palu finds himself in the midst of body parts and the smell of burned flesh. On his first visit to Kandahar he is covering a suicide bombing. Arriving in the country as the wars violence spirals out of control, Louie is unaware that he will spend the next five years covering the conflict. Louie begins writing a series of journals reflecting on his personal experiences and what the war looked like and felt to him.