Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society? Norwegian organist and researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have a solid theory on the subject. Shakespearean scholar Robert Crumpton decides to travel to Norway to meet him.

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Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

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New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

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Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present da...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...

Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love...

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...

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A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...