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A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruin...

An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident i...

"The Story of the Saviour's Life" A realistic, thoroughly detailed, dramatic recreation of the life of Christ, from the Anunciation through the Ascension. In between, there is the "King of Jews" infancy and youth, his various preachings and miracles and, finally his betrayal by Judas Iscariot, his d...

On the morning of June 18. 1954, the US CIA dropped leaflets in Guatemala City demanding the resignation of the president......

Stealing Lincoln's Body: The History Channel documentary Stealing Lincoln's Body is a fascinating and detailed examination of the strange journey taken by the remains of our 16th president. It revels in minutiae, not just of the odd body-snatching scheme in the title, but the peculiar methods by whi...

Astronomers are closing in on the proof theyve sought for years that one of the most destructive objects in the universea supermassive black holelurks at the center of our own galaxy. Could it flare up and consume our entire galactic neighborhood? Join NOVA on a mind-bending investigation into one o...

George Harrison’s friends, family, and bandmates unite for a tribute concert on the one-year anniversary of his death....

William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. O...

When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter portrayed in this Martin Scorsese film by Robert De Niro. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's lo...

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s....