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In the remote confines of an 18th century South American colony, officer Zama, a servant of the Spanish crown, longs for his transfer to Buenos Aires. Lucrecia Martel's revolutionary narrative unfolds in a seemingly impossible escape of a man trapped in his personal descent into the depths of lust, expectation and paranoia. A masterpiece that venerates the concept of freedom in a powerful portrait of colonialism, offering an equal measure of bewilderment and seduction, inviting the audience into a world strange and mesmerizing.

Two adventurous con artists, Miguel and Tulio, prisoners in the hold of Hernán Cortés' ship, come across a map that leads them to a mythical city, El Dorado, where there is an important treasure of gold. After escaping they pretend to be gods in order to seize all the riches, but their greed leaves them exposed. An animated adventure with original voices by Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh and a praised soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and John Powell, but criticized for its racist optic.

A documentary series on the life of Ulysses S Grant, the General who ultimately commanded the Union forces during the American Civil War and the man most responsible for the Union victory. Later he would be 18th President of the United States.

Upon the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish Conquest, a ghostly Conquistador arrives in modern Mexico. As he journeys toward the capital city, he remembers events from his past while encountering the testimonies of real people, the survivors of contemporary violence. History and the present begin to merge, giving nightmarish reflection on the enduring legacy of colonialism in our world today.

King Ebwera of the Bubi is captured 1904 by the Spaniards controlling Ecuadorian Guinea. The initial official reports tell a heroic story. But further investigations and the oral memories of the descendants tell a much darker one.

Jeremy Larkin, Isak Poole, Henry Abington, and Elizabeth Coates were members of "the Yankee Doodle Society", a rebel group based in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1777. Reporting directly to General Lafayette, the team operated as spies behind British lines. Jeremy was the son of Chester's Tory Mayor, who hid his political ideas behind a façade of disinterested pacifism. Elizabeth was a liberated woman ahead of her time, and Isak was an ex-slave. The brains of the group was Henry, a big fan of Benjamin Franklin (whom he resembled), and always able to invent whatever device or scheme the group needed to finish their missions.

In the 1880s, after the U. S. Army's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the government continues to push Sioux Indians off their land. In Washington, D.C., Senator Henry Dawes introduces legislation to protect Native Americans rights. In South Dakota, school teacher Elaine Goodale joins Sioux native and Western-educated Dr. Charles Eastman in working with tribe members. Meanwhile, Lakota Chief Sitting Bull refuses to give into mounting government pressures.

The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon the novel 'The Killer Angels'.

Washington tells the story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call "the greatest man in the world." Believing his public duty complete, he heads into retirement ready to be a farmer. But with the young country on the verge of collapse, he is once again called to lead, creating the most powerful and successful democracy in history. You may think you know George Washington, but there's more to our preeminent founding father than you've been told. Washington chips away the marble to reveal the man at the heart of our nation's story. You'll never look at George Washington, or the founding of our country, the same way again. (History Channel synopsis)

Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this limited series based on the National Book Award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum America and the ever-changing roles of race, religion and gender in American society.

This drama follows Long Island farmer Abe Woodhull, who bands together a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America's fight for independence.

On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a 10-story building, 146 workers--mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls--were burned alive or forced to jump to their deaths to escape an inferno that consumed the factory in just 18 minutes. It was the worst disaster at a workplace in New York State until 9/11. The tragedy changed the course of history, paving the way for government to represent working people, not just business, for the first time, and helped an emerging American middle class to live the American Dream.

The story of the Magna Carta: the Charter of rights. From its founding in 1215 by barons seeking protection of their liberties from an overbearing King John, to its role in establishing liberties for all, its role in the founding of America and the Bill of Rights, through to the present day. Following the opponents and defenders of Magna Carta over time, the program finds that while it was initially advanced by the powerful against the most powerful, it has come to take on a life of its own: its impartial and mutualist logic working to expand freedoms and justice wherever it takes hold.

Six-hour documentary on the American Revolution, from the passage of the Stamp Act (1765) through the ratification of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights (1789). In addition to narration and interviews with historians, the series uses re-enactments of military engagements and excerpts from letters, diaries and other documents of the period, spoken by actors.