The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast country into his private estate (1885-1908) and how he plundered the land and raped the bodies and souls of its defenceless inhabitants, causing countless victims; and what exactly is the true impact of this often forgotten story of crime and horror today.

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The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Barde...

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to...
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A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative...

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The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores o...
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In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to...

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he gr...

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement ...

During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on...

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The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of peo...

Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply r...

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dir...