Embark in a journey through some of the most beautiful cities in the world in this documentary series. Each episode features a new city and explores the many things that make it the legendary place it is today.
Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them? By combining expert analysis with compelling drama, 'The Last Journey of the Vikings' (Swedish title: 'Vikingarnas sista resa') tells a new and often surprising story about this complex people.
Never before had the world seen such devastation, such cruelty and bloodshed as the fighting in World War II. This film contains amazing footage of actual ground, seas, and air battles from 1933 through 1945.
The greatest art works of all time - born of war and bloodshed - as rival artists Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael compete to craft beauty from chaos. Starring Charles Dance.
Powerful and solid series about a double drama: war and the split within the people who endure it. This action story explores for the first time on screen the second Intifada and takes us to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.
A series of hearings held from June 2022 until December 2022 by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi, Chair (D) Liz Cheney, Wyoming, Vice Chair (R) Zoe Lofgren, California (D) Adam Schiff, California (D) Pete Aguilar, California (D) Adam Kinzinger, Illinois (R) Stephanie Murphy, Florida (D) Jamie Raskin, Maryland (D) Elaine Luria, Virginia (D).
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Algeria, within the winding alleyways of the old Casbah, the series unfolds under colonial rule and harsh social realities. At its center is Fatma, a gifted young musician determined to pursue her artistic calling in a society that seeks to silence her. Constrained by a conservative family and rigid traditions, she fights to claim her own voice.
Inspired by Al-Zahra, a celebrated singer returning from exile, Fatima finds the courage to defy expectations. But as her talent blossoms, so does the opposition she faces. When her path crosses with Ali Ben Ammar, a young man drawn into the struggle for resistance and identity, her personal dream becomes intertwined with her homeland’s fate—transforming her journey into one of courage, love, and sacrifice.
Top Tens of Warfare tells the story of modern age warfare in ten episodes. Each episode is dedicated to the top ten of military inventions, vessels, battles, aircraft, weapons, secrets, tanks, fighting forces, commanders and leaders and shows how they all influenced and changed the way we lived.
—Kalla
Les Grandes Batailles is a series of historical television programs by Daniel Costelle, Jean-Louis Guillaud, and Henri de Turenne, broadcast on French television in the 1960s and 1970s, depicting the major battles of World War II, as well as the Nuremberg Trials. The project for the series actually began with an official government commission for a program on the Battle of Verdun in 1966. Ten other programs about World War II followed. The writers and producers of the series were Henri de Turenne and Jean-Louis Guillaud, both journalists. They entrusted the production of the series to the young director Daniel Costelle.
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
May 1945: With the end of the war and the surrender of the Third Reich, the world discovered the full horror of a genocidal system on a scale never before seen in the history of humanity. The elimination of millions of individuals had been meticulously planned by a regime whose organization and methods were just beginning to be understood.
Explores the Third Reich from a contemporary perspective to investigate how the Nazis managed to conquer Germany and then half of Europe in the wake of World War I.