The Last Days of the USSR
2011-12-12From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic res...
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The Life of Aleksis Kivi
2002-01-18Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Alt...
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Martha Liebermann
2022-06-01Berlin, 1943, during World War II. Martha Liebermann, an elderly upper-class Jewish woman, faces the decision of her life: should the widow of the wor...
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The Mexia Incident
2025-05-06A short documentary covering the horrific events behind the Mexia Supermarket which took place in 1999.
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How to Win the TV Debate
2010-04-12With Britain's first-ever political leaders' television debate imminent, award-winning reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers what it's like to take part...
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The Wright Stuff
1996-02-12On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine flight: a smooth take-off banking into a couple o...
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The Crime of Cuenca
1981-08-17Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused...
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The Oath and the Man
1910-09-21A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest ma...
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The First Woman President
1974-04-14This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It deals specifically with how, after his se...
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Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
1973-09-21A girl who entered the convent pushed by devotion is depraved, marries, betrays her husband and becomes a courtesan.
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The Secret Train
1993-01-01The story of war veteran Sviatoslav Yavir. He follows the secret train that transports to the Siberia Ukrainian women, including his wife and daughter...
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From Patrice to Lumumba
2019-04-16As his fate was decided, Patrice Lumumba decided to write a letter to his wife, as a token of the promise he had made to himself about his country and...
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The Column
1968-10-18The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
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The Ancines Woods
1970-04-19Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rumours start to spread that he may be a werewolf and...
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Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
2001-07-11A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison h...
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