A mafia leader with deep connections to the government is ousted and his house raided. Now he is seeking revenge against the ones done him wrong by exposing the dark connections between the mafia and the government.
From the grit of South Memphis, a group of young climbers set out to scale a 16,000-ft rock tower on Mt. Kenya—defying the limits of their world and themselves, and confronting thin air, raw fear, and the climb toward self-discovery.
A gripping true crime documentary series exploring notorious murder cases that transformed idyllic UK rural landscapes into crime scenes. Each episode features in-depth interviews, revealing the chilling stories behind the tragedies.
One of America's most complex and enduring figures, Thomas Jefferson struggled personally and publicly with an issue that would come to define our nation. Examining the possible relationship between Jefferson and Monticello slave Sally Hemings, the program includes comments from such noted historians as Pulitzer Prize-winner Gordon Wood, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, noted Jefferson biographer Merrill Peterson, and others. Featuring the voices of Edward Herrmann, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, and Robert Prosky.
On September 11, 2001, all eyes were riveted on New York as the twin towers were attacked. This film explores the causes of the evil that led to the attacks, by documenting 20 years of relations between Washington, the Arab countries, Pakistan and Europe.
The fiercest battles of WWII come to life as never seen before in this stunning collection of one of the most powerful epics of history. Actual footage from all sides of the war in color. This documentary series takes you behind enemy lines and to the front lines of the tumultuous campaigns of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theatres where the soldiers, sailors and airmen fought in the most defining time in the history of the modern world.
British historian David Olusoga, along with other historians, narrates the story of millions of Indian, African and Asian troops who fought and died alongside French and British troops to help win the war against Germany, Austro-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
The Death Coast is an area of rough sea in the North Atlantic that's claimed more than six thousand vessels across centuries. Many sailors braved these waters – some for trade, some for war, and some for plunder. Gold and priceless objects from their wrecked ships now lie scattered across the ocean floor but salvaging has been banned here for the last decade. Now, after a long battle, shipwreck hunter Jeff Mackinnon has won exclusive rights to dive. He and his team have just 12 weeks to search the wrecks before the turbulent waters of the Death Coast make diving impossible.
The story of how the lottery invented to finance a zoo was incorporated by Rio de Janeiro's popular culture and, in the hands of organized gangsters, transformed itself into an immense crime empire.
Delve into the chilling, twisty true-crime story of South African serial killer Moses Sithole, whose reign of terror on young black women in Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland earned him the nickname the ABC Killer.