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America’s First Nations

America’s First Nations

Before the first Europeans set foot in the Americas, a great warrior named “The Peacemaker” risked everything to join together five warring tribes. This ‘Iroquois Confederacy’ became America’s first democracy.

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The Holy Grail

The Holy Grail

This documentary investigates the history of the Holy Grail. The legend first came together in the form of written romances, deriving perhaps from some pre-Christian folklore hints, in the later 12th and early 13th centuries.

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Icons of Power: Napoleon

Icons of Power: Napoleon

Featuring dramatic recreations, Napoleon tells the story of how this great French leader changed the face of history forever.

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Shoah

Shoah

Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary about the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis. He also shows, or rather lets some of his subjects themselves show, that the anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still alive and well in many people that still live in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere.

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Mysterious Hanging Coffins of China

Mysterious Hanging Coffins of China

Hanging coffins is an ancient funeral custom found only in Asia. An excavation is set in motion, in order to understand the culture behind the tribes who made them hundreds of years ago.

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2210: The Collapse?

2210: The Collapse?

This documentary looks into a future where our civilization has collapsed and asks the question: “Why did our civilization collapse?”

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America Before Columbus

America Before Columbus

History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there.

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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

In 1931, two white women stepped off from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century.

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Lost Kingdoms of Africa

Lost Kingdoms of Africa

Series in which British art historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford explores the pre-colonial history of some of Africa’s most important kingdoms.

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