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1) Dogfights
Series
Publisher
The History® Channel
Language
English
Description
Harnessing the technology from the latest CGI video game flight simulators this puts the viewers behind the cockpit pitted against enemy aircraft in some of modern history's greatest air battles.
Series
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
5) Murder Maps
Series
Publisher
3DD Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This drama-doc series takes you back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history. Our presenter, Nicholas Day, guides us into into the world of the killer as we see how police ingenuity and early forensics helped bring them to justice.
8) Episode 2
Series
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
El Shazly and Rashad continue their investigation into the boy king's life, looking closely at his advisors as he sought to reverse his infamous father's religious and cultural revolution, and the factors surrounding his untimely death. Featuring commentary from leading Egyptologists Dr. Zahi Hawass, Fayza Haikal, Salima Ikram and more.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Join Lucy Worsley on a journey across Europe to visit the incredible locations where royal history was made. From the Spanish Armada to the French Revolution, learn how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology. Host: Lucy Worsley.
10) Season 1
Series
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In ALONE, ten men are left in solitude, and separated from each other, in the harsh Vancouver Island wilderness. With no camera crews or producers, they have to survive using only what they can stuff into a backpack.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Riveted: The History of Jeans reveals the fascinating and surprising story of the iconic American garment. They're more than just a pair of pants -America's tangled past is woven deeply into the indigo fabric. From its roots in slavery to the Wild West, youth culture, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American ideology and politics are writ large.
Series
Publisher
El Dorado Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Relying on newly discovered archival footage, memoirs from the fallen and expert commentary from world-renown scholars, THE WAR TO END ALL WARS tells the story of World War I from the American perspective: It's Ace pilots, mine-laying sailors, heroic doughboys, Harlem Hell Fights, and courageous nurses. As the story of trench, chemical and open warfare unfolds, we come to understand how the first global war transformed American society, leading to...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This film sheds light on a relatively unexplored, but pivotal battle to secure a critical route inland for allied forces invading France on June 6, 1944. The fight for the La Fière causeway and bridge is regarded as one of the bloodiest small arms battles in U.S. military history, fought largely by paratroopers and glidermen from the 82nd Airborne Division.
14) D-Day in HD
Series
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-DAY.
16) The exiles
Series
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documentary filmmaker, Christine Choy, tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned project she began shooting in 1989. Driven by Choy's iconoclastic voice, THE EXILES is about the enduring love for one's home, the fragility of historical record and remembrance, and the power of film to intervene and bear witness.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the kibbutz movement's glorious 100-year history, Inventing our life reveals the heartbreak and hope of Israel's communal living experiment as a new generation of women and men confront an essential question: can a radically socialist institution survive a new capitalist reality? In this "illuminating and entertaining" (Jewish Week) documentary, director Toby Perl Freilich explores the modern history of Israel, from its...
Series
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War is one of the most studied and dissected events in our history. But what you don't know may surprise you. From medical inventions to military espionage, the bloody conflict continues to shape our world.
19) Naples '44
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing down everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived unbelievable methods of survival on a daily basis. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir titled NAPLES '44. Francesco Patierno's new documentary imagines Lewis returning many years later to...
Series
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Medieval and Renaissance blades are a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans of old with a singular use in mind. The truth of the sword has been shrouded in antiquity, and the Renaissance martial arts that brought it to being are long forgotten.
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