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The Universe - Season Four

Genres: History / Documentary / Sci-Fi

Starring: Erik Thompson

Country: USA

Directors: Erik Thompson, Alex Filippenko, Laura Danly

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX

A look at the energy emitted by the universe, from powerful jets ejected by black holes, to the nuclear fury of the sun; and how the universe maintains this energy in perfect balance through the conservation of energy.

The Universe - Season Five

Genres: History / Documentary / Sci-Fi

Starring: Erik Thompson

Country: USA

Directors: Erik Thompson, Alex Filippenko, Laura Danly

Year: 2011

Available Quality: DivX

A look for evidence of life on Mars which provides many clues that it now, or once had supported it; from the remains of lakes and rivers that once flowed on the surface; to the water ice frozen at the poles; to the seasonal changes in methane gases that may prove bacterial life still thrives underground.

Barbarossa aka Sword of War

Genres: Drama / History

Starring: Rutger Hauer, F. Murray Abraham, Federica Martinelli, Hristo Shopov, Ángela Molina, Antonio Cupo, Christo Jivkov

Country: Italy

Directors: Renzo Martinelli

Year: 2009

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

The story begins in the far northern Italy, under the administration of Germanic Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. His plans - to capture the regions of South and Center, to recreate the empire, which many years ago belonged to Charlemagne. In 1158, in the backwoods near Milan, one boy Alberto da Guza, helped save the life of an unknown knight, and learned in the face of a strong warrior of the Emperor Frederick I Hohenstaufen. Since then begin deadly clashes between the two legends of medieval Italy, fighting for independence, freedom, and social status of its people ...

Nelson's Navy: Back from the Dead - Season One

Genres: History

Starring: Mike Warner

Country: UK

Directors: Mike Warner

Year: 2011

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Three-hundred-and-fifty skeletons, exhumed from Royal Navy graveyards from the age of Nelson's Navy, are throwing an extraordinary new light on how these sailors lived, fought, outwitted their enemy, and, from the oldest to youngest, suffered for victory.

The Weight of Chains

Genres: History / War / Documentary

Starring: Branislav Lecic, Rade Aleksic, James Bissett, John Bosnitch, Michel Chossudovsky, Bosko Cirkovic, Vlade Divac

Country: USA, Canada, Slovenia

Directors: Boris Malagurski

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background...

Return to the Hiding Place aka War Of Resistance

Genres: Thriller / Drama / History / War

Starring: Steve Christopher, John Rhys-Davies, Mark Boyd, Craig Robert Young, Walt Sloan, Gary Moore, Louie Lawless

Country: USA

Directors: Peter C. Spencer, Josiah Spencer

Year: 2011

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

When the Nazis begin killing Jews in Holland, a group of youth fight to save the lives of the innocent.

United 93

Genres: Crime / Drama / History

Starring: Ray Charleson, Christian Clemenson, Denny Dillon, J.J. Johnson, Gary Commock, Opal Alladin, Starla Benford

Country: USA, UK, France

Directors: Paul Greengrass

Year: 2006

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Emotionally-packed and moving fact-based story about the passengers aboard doomed flight United 93 that was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. The passengers on the flight, as a result of a delay on takeoff that placed them behind the planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, are able to learn of the attacks and discern that this is no mere high-jacking. While the real events that caused the ultimate crash of the plane can never be known, the events depicted would appear to be as might be expected. The scariest part of the film is the unpreparedness of the FAA and the military in dealing with the situat...

The Count of Monte Cristo

Genres: Action / Thriller / Adventure / Romance / Drama / History

Starring: Guy Pearce, James Frain, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michael Wincott, James Caviezel, Henry Cavill, JB Blanc

Country: USA, UK, Ireland

Directors: Kevin Reynolds

Year: 2002

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

'The Count of Monte Cristo' is a remake of the Alexander Dumas tale by the same name. Dantes, a sailor who is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes' girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d'If for 13 years, where he plots revenge against those who betrayed him. With the help of another prisoner, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Genres: Drama / History / War / Biography

Starring: Rab Affleck, Edwin Apps, David Bailie, Bruce Byron, Paul Brooke, Timothy Bateson, Stéphane Algoud

Country: France

Directors: Luc Besson

Year: 1999

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman, she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13, she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it, she finds the English leveling her home town. Years after that, in 1428, she knows her mission is to be ridding France of the English and so sets out to meet Charles, the Dauphin. In his desperate military situation, he welcomes all help and gives the maiden a chance to prove he...

Young Bill Hickok

Genres: History / Western

Starring: John Miljan, Ethel Wales, Monte Montague, Julie Bishop, Roy Rogers, Archie Twitchell, Jack Ingram

Country: USA

Directors: Joseph Kane

Year: 1940

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.

The Long Riders

Genres: Crime / History / Biography / Western

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Guest, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Harry Carey Jr., Pamela Reed, James Remar

Country: USA

Directors: Walter Hill

Year: 1980

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of of revenge.

Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers

Genres: Action / History / War

Starring: James Robinson, Michael Conner Humphreys, Christopher Serrone, David Poland, Ryan Findley, Dick McMahon, Philip De Lorenzo

Country: USA

Directors: Curt A. Sindelar

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.

The Battle Of Algiers

Genres: Drama / History / War

Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader, Omar

Country: Italy

Directors: Gillo Pontecorvo

Year: 1966

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it.

I Shouldn't Be Alive - Season Five

Genres: Drama / History / Documentary / Biography

Starring: Eric Meyers

Country: USA, UK

Directors: Eric Meyers

Year: 2011

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

From the producers of "Touching the Void" the story of an African family's terrifying fight for survival when they are thrown into one of the most crocodile infested rivers in the world...after their fishing boat is attacked by a lone hippo.

The Tuskegee Airmen

Genres: Drama / History / War

Starring: Andre Braugher, Christopher McDonald, Laurence Fishburne, John Lithgow, Cuba Gooding Jr., Daniel Hugh Kelly, Courtney B. Vance

Country: USA

Directors: Robert Markowitz

Year: 1995

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.

Camelot - Season One

Genres: Fantasy / Drama / History

Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Jamie Campbell Bower, Tamsin Egerton

Country: Canada

Directors: Michael Hirst, Chris Chibnall

Year: 2011

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Camelot is an Irish/Canadian historical-fantasy-drama television series which premiered on April 1, 2011. It was co-produced by the Starz cable network and GK-TV which began production during the summer of 2010. The series, based on the Arthurian legend, was produced by Graham King, Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst.

Planet B-Boy

Genres: History / Documentary / Music

Starring: Christopher C. Kim

Country: USA

Directors: Benson Lee

Year: 2007

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Think breakdancing died in the eighties? Think again. PLANET B-BOY is a feature-length, theatrical documentary that re-discovers one of the most incredible dance phenomena the world has ever seen. Originally known as "B-boying", breakdancing was an urban dance form that originated from the streets of New York City during the seventies. Along with Emceeing, Graffiti and DJing, B-boying served as one of the crucial elements in the birth of hip-hop culture in America. Through the help of movies like Flashdance, Breakin', and Beatstreet, breakdancing took the country by storm, and teenagers across America were spinning on their backs doing "windm...

The Dam Busters

Genres: Action / Drama / History / War

Starring: Charles Carson, Patrick Barr, Colin Tapley, Raymond Huntley, Michael Redgrave, Frederick Leister, Stanley Van Beers

Country: UK

Directors: Michael Anderson

Year: 1955

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.

Native Land

Genres: Drama / History

Starring: Howard Da Silva, Robert Strauss, Fred Johnson, Art Smith, Paul Robeson, Charles Jordan, Houseley Stevenson

Country: USA

Directors: Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand

Year: 1942

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. In dramatizations, we see a farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man murdered in a boarding house, two sharecroppers near Fort Smith Arkansas shot by men deputized by the local sheriff, a spy stealing the names of union members, and a dead Chicago union man eulogized. In archival footage we witness police and goons beating lawfully assembled union organizers, and we see men at work and union families at play. The narration celebrates patriotis...

Glory

Genres: Drama / History / War

Starring: Jay O. Sanders, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi Kennedy, Andre Braugher

Country: USA

Directors: Edward Zwick

Year: 1989

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.

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