Let's Ask Nostradamus
1953-06-06Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.
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Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
1948-11-21How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nur...
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Degenerate Art
1993-04-11Narrated by David McCullough, this program examines the infamous Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) exhibition mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937 an...
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The Poisoner's Handbook
2014-01-07In 1918, New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner, Charles Norris. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris and his...
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Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
2006-10-16Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the ar...
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Saint-Just and the Force of Things
1975-01-01Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military c...
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Buddy Davis' Amazing Adventures: Ice Age
2017-04-24Join explorer Buddy Davis as he hikes atop glaciers, kayaks among icebergs, and reveals amazing facts about animals that lived during the Ice Age. Fun...
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Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
2010-09-16From his jail cell at Chihuahua's Military Hospital, Hidalgo begins to remember moments of his life, particularly his tenure as Parish Priest in the t...
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Mis-President
2017-10-26My father led a coup in 1961. Two years later, I became the president's daughter.
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The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2016-03-02An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-82), whose outstanding work predicte...
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Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History
2019-10-07Ian Hislop's sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences - from Victorians on the moon to 21st-century deepfake, and Hislop...
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La Véritable Histoire du radeau de La Méduse
2015-03-19On July 5, 1816, the raft of La Méduse, about 20 by 12 meters, began its slow drift. They left at 151 and 13 days later, after a hellish journey, arri...
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Die Keltinnen
2023-08-19Recent archaeological discoveries in Germany have changed the way we look at Celtic society and the major role played by women.
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Fires in the Dark
2020-12-01Seventeenth century. Set in a small village, nestled between the sea and the mountain, the father of Alan, a young fifteen-year-old boy, has sold hims...
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April Morning
1988-04-24A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution. During the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fi...
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