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2008
Life After People
Life After People6.98 2008 HD
In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Struan Rodger
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2023
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers6.00 2023 HD
The riveting story of the first all-Black tank battalion to fight in US military history. Under General George Patten's command, the 761st fought...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Morgan Freeman
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2005
The French Revolution
The French Revolution5.30 2005 HD
On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Edward Herrmann
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2011
History of the World in Two Hours
History of the World in Two Hours6.00 2011 HD
Did you know that 1% of the white noise you see on old televisions is background radiation from The Big Bang? That the gold on a wedding ring comes...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Corey Burton
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2012
WWII From Space
WWII From Space7.42 2012 HD
WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a...
Genre: History
Cast: Corey Johnson
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2008
Einstein
Einstein6.70 2008 HD
This captivating documentary from the History Channel recounts the development of iconic physicist Albert Einstein's provocative theory of general...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Albert Einstein
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2015
The Making of Trump
The Making of Trump4.40 2015 HD
As every day of Donald Trump's presidential campaign seemingly generates new headlines, this two-hour special examines the increasingly polarizing...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jon Seltzer
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2006
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Egyptian Book of the Dead7.00 2006 HD
Documentary takes a look at the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, a scroll created in 1880 BCE, and lost until 1887.
Genre: History
Cast: Omar Adam
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2000
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai8.00 2000 HD
Made famous by the 1957 Hollywood movie, the bridges of the River Kwai emblematize one of the most misunderstood events in history. Contrary to the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Edward Woodward
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2010
I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash
I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash7.50 2010 HD
On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished over the desolate,...
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: James Lentzsch
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2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later6.67 2020 HD
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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2012
Nazi Titanic
Nazi Titanic6.60 2012 HD
During a bizarre chapter of WWII, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels decided to make a movie based on the sinking of the Titanic. This epic...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Lee Williams
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2010
America: The Story of Us
America: The Story of Us6.20 2010 HD
A six-night miniseries presenting the history of how the United States was invented, looking at the moments where Americans harnessed technology to...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Liev Schreiber
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2013
Miracle Rising: South Africa
Miracle Rising: South Africa8.50 2013 HD
MIRACLE RISING: SOUTH AFRICA is the epic legacy of South Africa's political transformation that culminated in the first free and fair elections in...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Christiane Amanpour
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2010
The Universe 7 Wonders of the Solar System
The Universe 7 Wonders of the Solar System6.70 2010 HD
The seven wonder of our solar system are discussed: Enceladus' geysers, Rings of Saturn, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the Asteroid Belt, Mars' Olympus...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Erik Thompson
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2006
The Mexican American War
The Mexican American War8.50 2006 HD
One of the most controversial conflicts in U.S. history, the Mexican-American War erupted as President James K. Polk sought to extend the borders of...
Genre: History
Cast: Oscar de la Hoya
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2013
Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe
Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe4.40 2013 HD
Is building our own starship Enterprise possible? Will we ever travel between the stars as easily as they do in Star Trek? JJ Abrams' new feature,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: J.J. Abrams
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2013
JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide
JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide7.00 2013 HD
Documentary - tember 11th... Pearl Harbor... the assassination of JFK. Days that forever changed America. But the Kennedy assassination is different:...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jonathan Adams
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2024
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics1 2024 HD
Follows the 1936 Berlin Olympics when Black athlete Jesse Owens won 4 golds against the backdrop of Hitler's racist Nazi regime in Germany.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Don Cheadle
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2019
Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works
Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works8.00 2019 HD
In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together in secrecy to build America's first jet fighter....
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Dennis Quaid