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The story is inspired by Yin , the emperor of Yue opera.The girl to be married looks at herself with sadness.Men outside urged her to hurry up.Escape or surrender? She couldn't help but think of the memory of her first appearance on the stage.

In 1483, the twelve-year-old King Edward V and his younger brother were put into the Tower of London by their uncle, Richard. Weeks later, Richard pronounced himself King. The boys were never seen again. For centuries it has been assumed that Richard killed his nephews in a craven attempt at glory. But according to some, Richard was no child-killing monster. Rather, he was the finest King England ever had. Others say nobody killed the princes at all, and they lived anonymously into old age, far away from the cut-throat world of the English court. This film seeks the truth behind the mystery of their fate.

“1618” is a film about the inquisitorial visit to Porto that encountered resistance from priests, ordinary citizens and the city authorities themselves, all accustomed for centuries to living alongside the Jews.

Paris, July 14, 1789. The kingdom has been in crisis for several months, and the city is buzzing with unrest. Citizens are angry and have had enough of inequality, unemployment and hunger. Armed with axes, hay thieves, knives and rifles, they storm the Bastille fortress. Join us for the crazy day in the streets of Paris, which has become a symbol of the French Republic.

The Vatican opened once-secret records on Pope Pius XII on March 2020. This gave researchers a brand new insight into the Catholic Church during the Nazi era. What did the Pope know about the Holocaust?

On October 3, 1993, Somalian fighters would shoot down two Black Hawk helicopters, leading to an 18-hour gunfight. 'The Battle of Mogadishu: Battalion of Brothers' features brave Army Rangers sharing their stories, some for the first time ever.

Host Brian Kilmeade explores the history of Thanksgiving.

This is the story of the 1860 election, and how a group of politically minded young men created a national political organization - the Wide Awakes - who marched by torch light and may have handed the Presidency to Abraham Lincoln.

A road trip documentary following the life of Métis freedom fighter Gabriel Dumont.

A stone's throw from the iconic Cheops pyramids, another famous man-made creation rises, towering over the Giza Plateau: The Grand Egyptian Museum. The construction of this ultra-modern building of unprecedented proportions, stretching over 117 acres, was recently finalized. With its 20 years of construction punctuated with pitfalls and dead ends, 5000 daily onsite workers and 1-billion-dollar budget, it is the biggest construction site the world has ever seen. In the 260,000 square feet dedicated to the permanent collection, the new museum houses 100,000 priceless archaeological artefacts including numerous ones that have never been shown to the public. Through a combination of illustrated archives and 3D sequences of the building's construction, as well as explanations by the experts involved, we will delve into the heart of this pharaonic project - the greatest Egyptian works ever undertaken since the pyramids. Welcome to the biggest museum in the world!

Alien Perez Cruz fled from Cuba to the last nation willing to give him paperwork, Uruguay. He is among an exodus that in the last three years has seen over thirty thousand Cubans flee through the jungles of Guyana and Brazil on their way to a better life. In Uruguay, Alien is looking for a future where he can provide for his family. But at home, his family tells a different story. This is the story of a Cuban who risked it all, and the people who supported him that he had to leave behind. It's the story of Alien.

Four outnumbered hungarian soldiers hold a stand in the woods, against the soviet army, near the end of the second world war.

The works on the Athenian Acropolis: People and Monuments directed by S. Mavrommatis. Documentary with footage from 2003-2009 produced by the Acropolis Monuments Maintenance Service.

Frederick Douglass, a world-renowned author, orator, and activist, had a major impact on Scotland. His lifelong mission was to “tell the story of the slave” and when he fled to the UK after exposing his slaveholder’s name and deeds, he fell in love with Scotland—and the Scots fell in love with him. At the time the Scots saw Douglass as an icon of the freedom struggle; it’s only now that Scotland finally acknowledges this.

A British Intelligence Officer known as Thomas Edward Lawrence conducted daring raids during World War I which made him a legend. But how did this man become the renowned ‘Lawrence of Arabia?’ This fascinating history documentary explores the character behind the man and tries to explain how he came to lead a small band of Arab fighters against the fourth largest army in the world.

A Movie about Water, Thievery, and Being a Prisoner to Conventional Thoughts.

The image of Paris as the capital of love seems to be obvious today. However, it is only in the 19th century, with its "haussmannisation", that it acquired this title. How did this reputation impose itself on the whole world? From the grand boulevards to the banks of the Seine, through the darkness of the porte cochères, the documentary "Romantic Paris, Erotic Paris" looks back at the making of this myth and revisits, through emblematic characters and tasty archives, a century of cultural and social history. From the boudoirs of the great courtesans of the Second Empire to free love in the post-war Saint-Germain-des-Prés, through the interloper nights in the cabarets of the Occupation, a look back at a part of the history of the capital.

The film tells the story of the battlefield against the Japanese in southern Hunan in 1944. After The Kuomintang (Nationalist) ordered the army to withdraw, the last nine members of a Sichuan army company led by Qin Hao Zhong stayed behind themselves to cover the retreat of the rest of the troops.

After being expelled from France for his subversive communist activities, the Senegalese Maoist activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop (1946-73) returned to Dakar, where he joined the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa and, with his incendiary speeches against colonialism, challenged the power embodied by Léopold Sédar Senghor, president of Senegal.

A portrait of the Surrealist painter Irving Norman (1906 – 89). Having emigrated from Lithuania in 1923, Norman spent much of his career in the San Francisco Bay area. He approached creation through his analysis of society and his past in the military as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Norman produced more than 200 immense, complex works. Some of them, painted during the 1950s, are even visionary, depicting social realities that are relevant today. A film devoted to the life and work of an artist with a unique career.

The holidays are a time of family, celebrations, and lots of decorations! This holiday season, join Abby Hornacek as she explores the history behind the tradition of choosing and decorating a tree!

A year in review.

Raw materials such as wood and iron are brought back to life by the passage of air, thus generating sound, music: a magical combination of science and imagination, a physical fact that nevertheless conceals a mysterious aspect for the listener. The mechanical reproduction of this miraculous breath is ensured by skilled hands, which care for, build and restore the individual parts of the musical instrument, giving it a new lease of life. The centuries-old knowledge of the art of organ building, handed down from generation to generation, finds its home in a workshop in the district of Segariu, a small town in the Marmilla region, at the gateway to central Sardinia. Beyond the craftsmanship process there seems to be an invisible and unstoppable motion that survives the millennia: the pursuit of the breath of nature, the wind, which for the ancient Greeks (Πνεúµα) was also the spirit.

Rape has been used as a weapon of war in the conflicts that have ravaged the Great Lakes region in recent decades. Victims are courageously speaking out, some for the first time.

In the midst of a most restless period in the history of Indonesia, poet Chairil Anwar begins to be entangled by a great fear over his own mortality, thanks to his erratic, bohemian lifestyle. Thus, the soul keen on condemning itself as an eternally unbelonging wanderer undertakes a desperate pursuit to leave a lasting mark in an ever-changing world.

Eyewitness accounts and cine films from 1945.

Post Normandy landings in World War II, an astray squad of British soldiers attempt to rendezvous with their unit while coming across a band of German infantry determined to dismantle their every attempt.

Heading into the lost empires of Turkmenistan.

Featuring in-depth insight into the journeys of three men – born countries apart, generations apart, "Parallel Lines" explores the almost mythical connection they share in shaping Earth's technological standing and sustainability – past, present and future. Because regardless of where and when these men were born, they all have one thing in common: they were encouraged from a young age to envision a better world.

1956, Budapest. Even though the popular uprising has been beat down, Kádár has to face huge problems in a short period of time, which if not solved could end communism as a whole. The solutions need to be extremely quick and effective.

During the early 20th century, one tiny recording studio in Richmond, Indiana, had a big impact on the soundtrack of the Jazz Age. The Music Makers of Gennett Records tells the unlikely story of the Gennett Recording Studios, where many of the greatest artists in American jazz, blues, country, and gospel music first recorded.

A strange anomaly occurred 11,000 years ago. Groups of gods and sages appeared around the world precisely where humans suddenly discovered civilization. Indigenous people describe these gifted people as human-like but not quite human: Followers of Horus, People of the Serpent, Sapti Rshi, Shining Ones, Offiusa, Lookers, Watchers, Hayhuaipanti, Urukehu, and Anu-naga, to name a few. Who were these gods? Were they all connected? And have we been so obsessed with Atlantis and Lemuria that we’ve ignored other locations where this parallel civilization once dwelt? Islands such as Lapukije, Te Petaka, Ta Neterw, iw titi, and an academy called the Birthplace of the Gods? Join best-selling author Freddy Silva on a history-changing journey to the oldest navels of the Earth, including Gobekli Tepe, the Nile Valley, Yucatan, Lake Titicaca, Easter Island, and New Zealand.

This film marks 50 years since the fire that ravaged the Britannia railway bridge over the treacherous Menai Straits to Anglesey. It includes remarkable archive and moving eyewitness accounts of the destruction and rebirth of a British engineering masterpiece. Using a wealth of footage from the time, stunning photography and first-hand testimonies from the men who risked their lives fighting the flames, this is the vivid story of the Britannia Bridge from its building in the Victorian Age to its resurrection in the 1970s.

On the morning of the 21st November 1920, in a co-ordinated attack on the British intelligence services, 14 alleged agents and spies, living in lodgings, hotels and boarding houses across Dublin city, were murdered by Michael Collins’ notorious IRA 'squad'.

Using a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage, correspondence, and new and illuminating interviews, Julia Newman makes the case that Albert Einstein's example of social and political activism is as important today as are his brilliant, groundbreaking theories.

A short documentary which that talks about the neighborhood high school in the Back of the Yards Neighborhood in Chicago, it's origins, and how it came to be the empire that it is today. Join us as we interview the principal, as she explains how this school came to be, and students from different grade levels as they describe their experience with academics, social life and extracurricular activities in this school.

Herman J. Russell, born in the Jim Crow-era South, built one of the oldest and largest black-owned construction and real estate firms in the country. Since the 1960s, his company has helped shape Atlanta’s skyline, including work on the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Mercedes Benz Stadium, State Farm Arena and many more.

Benjamin Franklin and George Washington are two of the men responsible for the creation of our nation. What many people don't realize is that their founding partnership may have played a critical role in establishing the United States of America.

Experts uncover the long-lost secrets and treasure of Pompeii.

COVID-19 is far from the first pandemic to wreak havoc in the world. A long line of infectious diseases have devastated and in some cases destroyed entire societies. This documentary examines the causes of epidemics. It also sheds a light on the impact infectious diseases have had on politics and societal change. Today, the world is facing COVID-19. Measures such as quarantine and lockdowns are being rolled out in an effort to control the spread of the virus; and some are questioning how effective they are. Over the centuries, scientists managed to develop treatments and medicines to help control or even eradicate infectious diseases. Virologists are facing that task again with the coronavirus, as the world frantically searches for ways to overcome a pandemic which threatens our modern way of life.

The Faces that Never Fade shows how war lives on in every veteran that comes home. The Faces that Never Fade focuses on showing the humanity of the Vietnam War through the experiences of John Tutle by diving into the erosion of hope from the constant repetition of day to day tasks mixed with the insanity of war along with the enduring memories of the sights and sounds of losing friends. John’s journey will show how war lives on in every veteran that comes home and the ones who didn’t come back are always carried with them. From learning to live with PTSD to moving on and helping other veterans John’s story is just one experience of millions that have served in a combat zone for this country.

Hidden events that changed the course of World War II. This episode features the less-celebrated heroes who made Dunkirk, the Battle Of Britain and D-Day possible.

Animation that tries to make a synthesis of the history of the working class in just over a minute.

A man reminisces about life many years ago in a small New Mexico town.

An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness. Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were captured by Nazis and experimented on in Auschwitz as children. Despite struggling with her traumatic past, Eva decides to forgive her tormentors.

This is a story about America in the final hour before it would change forever. Two young lovers - one a Muslim college student and the other an employee at the World Trade Center - go about their mundane morning, unaware of the terror that awaits. Set to real FAA & NORAD transmissions.