A look back at the boxing career of Tony Zale who rose from the steel mills of Indiana to become the middleweight champion of the world.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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Superman’s 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.
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Stalin: Man of Steel
Emmy Awards nominee for “Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
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On Hannibal’s Trail
Series in which three Australian brothers – Danny, Ben and Sam Wood – set out cycling on the trail of Hannibal, the warrior who marched from Spain to Rome at the head of an invading army.
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Origin of Christianity
The epic story of the emergence of Christianity in just over a century, from the death of Jesus of Nazareth, around the year 30, to the moment when the leaders and followers of the new faith, already scattered throughout the eastern Mediterranean, from Jerusalem to Rome, are definitely moving away from Judaism, around the year 150.
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Origins
A genealogist and a cop: a great team for uncovering the origins of the crime. On a murder case, genealogist Margot Laurent teams up with Arthur Du Plessis, a young and self-assured cop. Who committed the murder? And why? A murder always has its dark side: a fabricated family history that becomes an urban legend. And who can claim that their family has no secrets? Margot and Arthur strip away the hidden mysteries to shed light on the murder. Arthur is the no-nonsense one, here to arrest the culprit, while Margot, the genealogist, is more interested in the past, in the prehistory of the murder, in what prefigured the tragedy before it happened. Between them, Margot and Arthur bring the events into focus. Here lie hidden family traumas, stories sometimes ignored by those who must endure the aftermath, which give multiple layers to the whodunnit.
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Japanese Style Originator
Find out everything there is to know about Japanese tradition, from food to culture to objects and arts, and the people who are continuing it today.
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The Real Peaky Blinders
Exploring the mass gang movement that originated in Birmingham and other industrial cities in the 19th century and evolved into modern gangsterism in the early 20th.
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The Human Pyramid
Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a “what if” question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.
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The Giza Pyramids: Reaching for the Stars
Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues behind these stone giants built over 4,500 years ago.