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.

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

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

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

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...

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A Liberian refugee SAM REAYAH and his family have been separated for five years and live in uncertai...

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A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...

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Combining modern footage with home movies and interviews, filmmaker María Casado's life is explored,...

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

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

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...

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A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...