Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, "heroes" in the West but "terrorists" in Russia, even today.
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The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...
Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive h...
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...
A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the...
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...
‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing boa...
Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial ...
The Art of Nom explores an ancient and nearly extinct Vietnamese script called Chu Nom and the five ...
By the age of thirty he’d already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few...
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In JINGLE BELL ROCKS!, director Mitchell Kezin delves into the minds of some of the world’s most leg...
Based on the story of Helen Keller who at a very young age was left deaf and blinded by an illness. ...
Six young women programmed the world's first all-electronic programmable computer, ENIAC, as part of...
Pickup trucks are essential to the American way of life; manufacturers compete to outsmart, outmaneu...
REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...
Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...
Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernic...