Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.

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When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its ...

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

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It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Ma...
A Liberian refugee SAM REAYAH and his family have been separated for five years and live in uncertai...

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo...

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Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in th...

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Blood Diamonds is a made-for-TV documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, tha...

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Imagine being forced to leave your family and fight in war you don't understand - and you are only e...

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