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On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Bucaco by the Anglo Portuguese army of general Wellington Despite the victory, Portuguese and British are forced to retreat from th

A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti

Based on the acclaimed memoir One Train Later by rock guitarist Andy Summers, Cant Stand Losing You Surviving the Police follows Summers journey from his early days in the psychedelic 60s music scene, when he played with The Anim

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein

On his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pots bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million undesirable civilians

As the new millenium dawns, Baseball is more popular and profitable than ever, but suspicions and revelations about performance enhancing drugs keep surfacing, calling the integrity of the game itself into question

This latest entry covers the period from the early 1990s onward Labor relations deteriorated badly in the early part of that decade leading to the players strike in August 1994 The Montreal Expos were the best team in baseball at

American Experience Walt Disney

The history of Mattels definitive action figure toy line

The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas Stonewall Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers

A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota a town of deep corruption and crime

In 1765, young English boy Jim Hawkins gets involved with buccaneers during his quest to find pirate Captain Flints treasure buried on a secret island

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaohs court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets

In 1856, the first U S Consul General to Japan encounters the hostility of the local authorities and the love of a young geisha

In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandts romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch

In 1978, when the push to decriminalise homosexuality has stalled, a group of activists decide they must make one final attempt to celebrate who they are Led by former union boss, Lance

Young and wide eyed, Kathie falls in love with charming yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst, only to find their marriage turning stranger, darker and more disturbing as time passes

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama

Dream Tower depicts the delirious construction and deconstruction of a building that harboured some of the freest spirits in Canada

This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens

Mrs Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women

In 1943, a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany uses new methods to rehabilitate those with spinal injuries in Great Britain Based on actual events

1950 Rural Alabama Cotton harvest Its a make or break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone Pine Top Purvis Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperat

A group of journalists of the Knight Ridder news service covering President George W Bushs planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the Presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction

The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele

An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era

Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd and sometimes illicit jobs to support members of her dead husbands aristocratic family

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam

Barabbas, the criminal that the Jewish leaders induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life

Depicting Ted Kennedys involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne

A former major league baseball player, Moe Berg, goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples struggle over the rights to their land

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each others way of life

Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victorias rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert

In San Francisco in 1850, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska

The story of the assassination of U S Senator Robert F Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty two people in the hotel, whose lives were never

Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted

An examination of the conventional bombs and missiles that are reshaping modern warfare Also discussed are the counters to these weapons

Young Tom Hall Art Parkinson and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941

Third Reichs Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down

Science and mythology and how they are the same thing

Teenagers did not always exist In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of you

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one