The Making of Playboy
2024-10-18Playboy, a brand now synonymous with sex, was launched by Hugh Hefner in the 1950s in Chicago. Hefner bought the iconic Playboy mansion in Chicago’s G...
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The Day of the White Lotus
2022-05-17Historical drama centered around Theosophical Society, one of the most controversial organizations of the 19th century.
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The Natural History of Destruction
2023-03-16Is it morally acceptable to use the civilian population as yet another tool for waging war? Is it possible to justify death and destruction for the sa...
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Breast Tax
2018-05-08Nangeli, a comrade from the so called lower caste fights against the caste discrimination where women are not allowed to wear cloth over the upper par...
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Elton John: Ten Days That Rocked
2019-06-09Lifting the lid on one of the most iconic singers, songwriters and performers of all time with a look at the most powerful moments that molded Elton J...
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L. Frank Baum: The Man Behind the Curtain
2005-10-25A featurette on L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and other children's books.
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The Declaration of Independence
1938-11-26This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Co...
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Empire of Sentiment
The long road to freedom. For Jacob Wainwright and the nameless ‘Boy’, it is 1,000 miles on foot, then 4,000 across the ocean. From besieged Africa al...
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Time to Go Back
2024-05-02June 1944. The vicinity of Orsha. Ivan Raikov's partisan group goes on a reconnaissance mission. But it is complicated by the appearance of the Jagdko...
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Rock Family Trees
2022-04-09More than two decades after it left our screens, BBC Two’s iconic and much-loved music documentary series, Rock Family Trees, is back for a one-off sp...
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1066: A Year to Conquer England
2017-02-28Drama-Documentary in which historian Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led...
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The Red Horse
1981-02-06A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of...
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Third Eye Spies
2019-03-01Two physicists discover psychic abilities are real only to have their experiments at Stanford co-opted by the CIA and their research silenced by the d...
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141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence
1975-02-06In 1930s Hungary, budding aristocrat Lőrinc Parcen Nagy undergoes a moral awakening. He abandons his privileged life to join the socialist underground...
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