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This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.

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Cast: Patrick Stewart

What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aidan McArdle

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson

Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zahi Hawass

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

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Cast: Claude Lanzmann

Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the planet. What did these prehistoric creatures look...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nick Schatzki

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Matthew Brenher

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dylan Baker

The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...

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The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that help bring the catastrophe to light.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sophie Okonedo

The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Bracewell

Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Schwarz

The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. For decades, investigators and amateurs...

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A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Packham

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Farwell

A documentary about the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp during WWII.

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Documentary on Bayard Rustin, best-remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

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Cast: Bayard Rustin

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simone Signoret

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with a foreign prince, which results in a decade-long...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tucker Smith

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Mason

Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Sutherland

Examining the life and times of Adolf Hitler and following the full arc of his ascent, tyrannical reign, criminality and undoing.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adolf Hitler

Dr Xand van Tulleken and archaeologist Raksha Dave tell the brutal story of one of the most bloody and savage conquests in English history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Xand van Tulleken

How the Silk Road Made the World 3 x 60' NHNZ/CCTV (China Central Television) The Silk Road is one of humanity’s greatest enterprises. For...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Parker

This remarkable science-history series investigates the blistering pace of human endeavour in space exploration, computing, energy, resources, Earth...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shalin Naik

Jonathan Roberge dives into the world of Montréal crime during the 1957-1977 period, when the city saw a prolonged war between the police and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Roberge

Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are unearthing new clues that transform long held...

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Cast: Rufus Beck

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Cast: Sergio Zavoli

British show about possible x-files style stories.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Robinson

A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole....

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A lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experiments. As the material of the lectures should be...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alexander Lippisch