Tag: historical documentary
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Goering: Nazi Number One
This is the story of an incredible rise to power, the most comprehensive documentary on Hermann Goering ever made. He was a man of many faces: vain, ambitious, more brutal than any other of Hitler’s minions, yet the most popular Nazi official of all, at times even more popular than Hitler himself. He embodied the…
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Greek Island Odyssey
Historian Bettany Hughes has embarked on an epic, personal journey. Inspired by Homer’s The Odyssey, she will sail the unpredictable Mediterranean seas, tracing Odysseus’s long journey home. Her mission: to experience what the Greek hero experienced and to uncover truths behind the myths and legends, all while enjoying the delights of ancient Greece today. Follow…
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Apollo 11: The Untold Story
Nearly forty years after the moon landing the men on the mission reveal what really happened. On how close the mission came to disaster.
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Apollo: The Forgotten Films
Recently discovered footage reveals the secret history of NASA’s first landing on the moon, and using this brand-new evidence, former astronauts and experts challenge everything known about the Apollo missions.
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Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend
Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.
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Titanic’s Final Mystery
The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. For decades, investigators and amateurs alike have floated theories for why it occurred and who was to blame for the extraordinary loss of life, but no one answer could fully explain what happened. Until now. To…
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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.
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Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.
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Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King’s Vanished Palace
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace’s architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV’s vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be transformed by its successive occupants later on. The Versailles we know today only vaguely resembles the Versailles of…
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The Fog of War
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company’s president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
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Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the…
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I Am Not Your Negro
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
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The Real War of Thrones
In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.
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Ancient Apocalypse
Journalist Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age.