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Daring hero Captain Bonanza -- né Hudson Hill -- uncovers a sinister plot surrounding three magic idols in the mystic Hudson Valley. But this scheme is far greater, and far deadlier, than he ever could have imagined.

A man tries to shut down a Georgia plantation in the American west during the civil war.

The story of the Sosúa settlement, the refugee colony created on land donated by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo that saved hundreds of European Jews at a moment when few countries would accept them.

In early May of 1941, an unemployed Woody Guthrie and his wife, Mary, packed their three children into a battered Pontiac and left southern California for Portland, Oregon. All he had waiting for him in the Northwest was the job of writing songs for a documentary film about the dams being built on the Columbia River. This film details the thirty day contract Woody had as a temporary worker for the Bonneville Power Administration.

This is a war story told like no other. Through personal experience, filmmaker Mel Halbach takes us on a journey on a nuclear missile submarine during the cold war days of Mutually Assured Destruction. Through interviews, stock footage and animation Halbach brings forth tales from the underworld where 140 shipmates lived underwater, seventy days at a time. Their mission: to participate in the destruction of the world, if ordered to do so. Mel’s personal journey is woven with the contemporary stories of his shipmates – some reluctant to push the button. During patrol Mel describes how he and others smoked marijuana to keep their sanity under the cloud of launching an all out nuclear attack.

Built in 1965 and located on Avenida Juan de Garay, in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a residential building holds an extraordinary mystery that is part of the everyday lives of its tenants. An archetypal secret intersects the lives of the inhabitants of Garay, whose stories are intertwined with Argentine popular history, isolation and imagination.

Fed up with harassment and housing discrimination, lesbians in 1990s Kansas City dreamed of a place where they could "walk hand in hand, freely down the streets." So they created Womontown. The radical enclave encompassed 12 city blocks and attracted women from all over the U.S.

In 1930, the writer and intellectual Azorín discovered a hoax that had been propagated for almost 60 years: the life and works of the Spanish archbishop Antonio María Claret, founder of the Claretian Missionaries, had been adulterated.

The Moon, Mars and Antarctica share a staggering secret - they may have been home to long lost and highly advanced ancient civilizations. Artifacts on the surface of these orbital bodies suggest an alien race with unimaginable technology.

A collection of early Australian films about bushrangers, compiled by Australia's National Film and Sound Archive. Films are: [unknown] (1906), The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), The Story of the Kelly Gang (1910), Thunderbolt (1910), Trooper Campbell (1914), The Kelly Gang (1920), Robbery Under Arms (1920), When The Kellys Were Out (1923), and Trooper O'Brien (1928).

Filmed and edited in High Definition, this DVD takes you on a fascinating tour of Virginia’s Historic Triangle – Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg and Yorktown. Explore the dramatic events that occurred at each, re-living some of the most important chapters in American history. LEARN COLONIAL HISTORY - From the first English settlers at Jamestown and the establishment of the colonial government, to the surrender of the British Army at Yorktown and the birth of a new nation, experience life in colonial America. Enjoy the celebration of America’s roots: colonial-era crafts, fifes and drums, dramatic militia musters, battlefield re-enactments, archaeological digs and more.

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'.

Forty years after the end of the conflict, unexploded bombs, secret tunnels and other vestiges of the long combat still exist in Vietnam.

Claiming that Islam is inherently violent and seeks to destroy all other faiths, cultures and systems of government, this provocative film presents Islamic writings to prove that fanaticism is not limited to just a few misguided souls. In interviews, noted experts on Islam refute mainstream media, diplomats and officials who have described Islam as a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its name represent a radical fringe.

Musical documentary of the children survivors who voyaged the Titanic

A still camera acts as a time "window". Through it, the reality become both a Return to the past and the present.

Found footage from a mid-90’s Miami booty party.

This film examines the mechanisms of Nazi extortion during World War II, and is interspersed with current issues surrounding restitutions. It retraces the incredible stories of 3 major works having belonged to Jewish collectors. From their plundering by the Nazis to their final restitution: Man with a Guitar by Georges Braque, Herbstsonne by Egon Schiele and Sitting Woman by Henri Matisse.

The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the main church of Florence, Italy. It was one of the most impressive projects of the Renaissance. Il Duomo di Firenze, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches and, until development of new structural materials in the modern era was the largest in the world. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed.

LBJ and Vietnam offers an extraordinary inside view of a presidency in crisis and the personal torment of a man torn between completing the task at hand and the unbearable cost of doing so. LBJ and Vietnam: In The Eye of the Storm is the agonizing story of a leader left to carry on an unwanted conflict.

"The First People Taking Care of the Fishery" are the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, the largest indigenous tribe east of the Mississippi. For generations, they have been stewarding the fisheries of their Great Lakes territory in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This project explores the cultural and economic importance of the fishery to the tribe and how use historic and sustainable practices to ensure a healthy fishery and preserve their way of life for the next seven generations in the face of climate change and invasive species.

Dive full-force into the most electric, profound, action-packed, and emotionally resonant decade in the history of filmmaking with the fifth installment of the “Tour de Cinema” series.

A documentary that shows how three generations of Palestinian in U.S, have maintained their emotional attachment to their home in West Jerusalem, taken over by Israelis in 1948. Among them a 21-year-old, who travelled across the world to visit her grandfather's house to find out the truth she inherited about the house and managed to meet face to face the current 96-year-old Israeli occupant

Anchor Bret Baier presents an in-depth analysis of the Moscow Summit, which involved President Ronald Reagan meeting with leader Mikhail Gorbachev and speaking directly with the citizens of the Soviet Union for the first time.

The town of Zinkiv, where people of different nationalities and religions lived in harmony and peace in the 1950s, is actually a paradise that was not on the map of the former USSR: mysteriously, it simply "fell" out of the field of vision of the totalitarian system. The Orthodox church, Jewish synagogue, Catholic church, and Islamic heritage site—an old Turkish fortress—coexisted peacefully and naturally there.

A father of a fallen soldier killed while in service in Iraq attempts to write his son's eulogy for his upcoming memorial service.

An in depth look at Rochester, New York's LGBTQIA+ history. The documentary condenses over 375 hours of interviews and more than 100 participants into a 90 minute film to bring you through the journey of these men and women. It covers the first efforts at organizing in the 1970s, political funding battles and the contributions gay Rochesterians made at the outset of the AIDS crisis.

Israel Indivisible tells the story of Israel and the Jewish people as seen and heard through the lives and voices of the people who lived and died to establish and hold the land God calls His.

At the request of the Catholic Church in Lisbon, members of the Royal Archeology and Historical Association (RAHA) of Portugal excavate 78 mummies in a crypt beneath the altar of the Sacramento Church in Lisbon. In the course of excavation the researchers find handwritten books indicating there is a large amount of treasure buried - somewhere - near the mummy crypt.

A band of Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal the President's body from its tomb outside Springfield, Illinois, and hold it for a ransom of $200,000. The story shows how important this beloved President remained to a public so unprepared for his violent death in 1865.

A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.

When Ernest Shackleton is given the ship Endurance to reclaim the record for the furthest south expedition, his journey is cut short when his ship becomes trapped in the ice pack and begins to sink.

Documentary following the efforts of a historian to clear the name of Albert Goering, brother of Herman. Albert strived to save Jews while his brother masterminded plans to exterminate them. Through eyewitness accounts and the historian's findings, the film explores the notion that Albert's deeds may not have been possible without the help of his brother.

For over a century, the presidency and Hollywood have had a fruitful relationship. And the movies screened in the white house family theater can serve as a window into what's going on outside the White House, or inside the president.

A deconstruction of the known history of the Cuban revolution.

Harrowing but thought-provoking documentary on the fate of women who were abducted and abused by the German Wehrmacht during World War II. Among them were many women from occupied countries. The film illustrates the system of mass recruitment, but also draws attention to the discrimination these women have faced in their own countries, where some have not been rehabilitated even in the present day.

Collingwood is home to a bustling tourist industry, but it wasn't always this way. In Side Launch, you'll experience the town's history in shipbuilding and the passion of its beloved workers.

Kids of all ages will be spellbound for over 45-minutes as they are taken “on-location” to learn about God’s amazing animals of the everglades. Plus they’ll love the animated story-song “Swamp Man” and the free game included in the bonus features. Children love the grandfatherly explorer/singer Buddy Davis, who leads them through the everglades on an air boat, via all-terrain vehicles, on flat bottom boats, and via hikes that reveal powerful alligators, amazing manatees, intelligent dolphins, cranes, a black bear, snakes, snapping turtles, and more! You probably didn’t know just how big the variety of everglades animals is. This DVD reveals God’s special design in each one!

Based on the incredible true story of professional baseball player-turned WW2 spy, Moe Berg, The Catcher brings us along on Moe's first mission for the OSS. Filled with suspense and intrigue and set against the beautiful, yet dangerous, backdrop of 1930's Japan, Moe must gather intel crucial to the planning of a historic battle - and of the upmost importance to the war effort of the Allied Forces.

The inspiration for June Finfer’s play, The Glass House, this documentary traces the creation of one of the first great Modernist houses in the world, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House. Commissioned by a Chicago physician, Edith Farnsworth, this glass and steel rectangle set on a platform in rural Illinois has been visited by people from all over the world. Based on a plan Mies developed over many years, it was the focus of a legal battle between the architect and his client.

Think we live in unprecedented times? Think again. Bret Baier explores the bombshells and dirty tricks that haunt the final days of Presidential elections.

This documentary, chronicles the first 50 years of flight, from the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903 to 1953. It includes interviews with an original mechanic who worked in their bicycle shop and a wide range of other pioneers such as Frank Long, Igor Sikorsky, Glen Martin, Alan Lockheed, Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, LeRoy Grumman, Robert Gross Connie and Wellwood Beel.

Tanks: Armoured Battles of World War II - The Fall of France is a documentary film which traces the role of the armored forces on both sides in the dramatic battles which led to the great German victory in 1940. Featuring rare archive footage, stunning 3D animation and a detailed examination of the machines by David Fletcher of the Royal Armored Corps Tank Museum at Bovington, and writer and historian Bob Carruthers.

A documentary about lost landmarks and memories of Philadelphia. Produced by WHYY-TV12 in 1993, this program provides a unique glimpse into the city's past. Starring Bill Campbell, the documentary showcases the changing landscape of Philadelphia and how it has evolved over time.

Dan Jones, Suzannah Lipscomb and Rob Bell take viewers back to one of the most momentous events in English history - the devastating fire of September 1666 that obliterated almost every building inside the city walls of medieval London. They follow the blaze as it rampaged out of control, to reveal what actually happened, hour by hour, and street by street.

Following the recent news of the history-making discovery of Shackleton’s ship The Endurance, Shackleton’s Endurance: The Lost Ice Ship Found will serve as a definitive look at Sir Ernest Shackleton’s historic and ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition resulting in the loss of his highly revered ship, Endurance, as well as maritime archaeologists’ relentless mission to find this holy grail of shipwrecks.

This film was produced to present the Eames proposal to make an American Revolution Bicentennial celebration. The exhibition would compare and contrast the lives of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, providing a cinematic trip for the viewer through the exhibit, using animation, live-action, and still photography. It was later used by the USIA to provide information to the embassies and museums which would be hosting the exhibition.

When Atlantic Richfield prospectors struck oil at Prudhoe Bay early in 1968, they stumbled upon the largest oil field ever discovered in North America. Getting that oil out of Alaska would take nine years, employ some 78,000 people, cost more than $8 billion, and require threading 800 miles of steel pipe through America's most pristine wilderness.

The story of Genghis Khan.

The Fillmore was once a thriving, vibrant, and multicultural community with one of the most prominent jazz scenes on the West Coast and hundreds of black-owned businesses. The neighborhood’s prosperity quickly came to an end as urban redevelopment tore through neighborhoods, pushing thousands of families and businesses out of the area. Despite this, hundreds of community activists today worked tirelessly to help reclaim the “Harlem of the West.”

Discover people who perform seemingly impossible shooting feats with all kinds of firearms. Watch world-class shooters perform amazing shots as well as reenact shots made famous in history.

Hitler attacks west invading Belgium and Holland, Operation Dynamo and the attempt to evacuate the British expeditionary force at Dunkirk culminating in the fall of France.

Literary history's greatest mystery? Who created the greatest works of iambic thunder in the English language, and who lived the courtly life that is written about in the works of Shakespeare. An uneducated tradesman from Stratford?

Voices Across the Divide is a powerful documentary and oral history project exploring Palestinian and Jewish histories through rarely heard personal stories. Narrated by Alice Rothchild, an American Jew raised on the tragedies of the Holocaust and the dream of a Jewish homeland in Israel, the film follows her personal journey as she begins to understand the Palestinian narrative, while exploring the Palestinian experience of loss, occupation, statelessness, and immigration to the US.

The Little dictator is the 'real' story behind Napoleon, he decides to invade Russia but his adventures leave him beaten by Mother Nature.

Three forensic psychology, law enforcement, and historical experts reexamine the infamous case and cast doubt on the widely accepted version of events. The team’s goal is to distinguish truth from fiction and determine how much of what is believed to exist about this renowned murderer is a myth. And why has history hidden the only truth—the account of the five brutally murdered women?

After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. needed a victory to prove its military strength. One daring plan - involving Army bombers, a Navy aircraft carrier and a well-known racing and stunt pilot from the 1920s and 30s - brought America the military respect it needed and even changed the entire course of the war. Here is the incredible story of 80 men, 16 planes and one of history's most dangerous missions: One Hour Over Tokyo - The Doolittle Raid.

Featuring professional musicians, historians and everyday players, this programme tells one of music's greatest stories: the invention and innovation of the electric guitar.

The Big Freeze was arguably the most devastating weather event to hit modern Britain. Snow began falling on Boxing Day 1962 and barely stopped for the next 10 weeks. The coldest recorded winter since 1739 saw temperatures plummet to minus 22 degrees.

Biblical scholars reveal what is known of Joseph, the father of Jesus Christ.