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9/11 The Falling Man

This is the story of an historic and most photographed and filmed event..9/11 World Trade Centre, New York, terrorist attack. Everyone can remember what they were doing on this fateful day. There was one specific photograph of a man falling from the World Trade Centre which was considered to distasteful to be continued showing but[...]

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The Human Family Tree

History | 21 Oct, 2012 | 3 Comments

In a single day in a single street, with the DNA of a couple hundred people at random, National Geographic Channel intends to follow the ancient traces of humanity. Narrated by Kevin Bacon, the human family tree moves to one of the most diverse corners of the world - Queens, NY - to demonstrate how every[...]

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Who Killed Rasputin?

History | 19 Oct, 2012 | No Comments

Rasputin is perhaps the most mysterious figure in the last five hundred years. What he was is hard to define, in short he was a "mystic" who had an eerie power over the Russian royal family in the 1900s. The nobles feared Rasputin and killed him. Or did they? This documentary points out holes in[...]

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The Rape of Nanking: Nanjing Massacre

History | 15 Oct, 2012 | 5 Comments

The slaughter of Nanking, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. The duration of the slaughter is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well[...]

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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

History | 13 Oct, 2012 | No Comments

‘Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire’, a BBC One docudrama series, based on true facts and extensive historical research, reveals how the greed, lust and ambition of men like Caesar, Nero and Constantine shaped the Roman Empire. It comprises of six parts, with each episode looking at a different significant point in the[...]

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Mysteries of Asia: Lost Temples of India

History | 09 Oct, 2012 | 64 Comments

The mysteries of Asia series of three-part video was originally produced for The Learning Channel. During this segment, historians and others examine temples built in India over 1,000 years ago. They remain quite intriguing, though today's tourists rarely visit. Records reveal that trained elephants had to drag millions of stone blocks to build these structures. The[...]

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Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

History, Religion | 09 Oct, 2012 | 533 Comments

Over a thousand years ago, the sun-washed land of southern Spain was home to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, living together and flourishing. Their culture and beliefs intertwined, and the knowledge of the ancients was gathered and reborn. Here were the very seeds of the Renaissance. But it changed. What happened and why is for you[...]

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Guns Germs and Steel (2 of 3)

History, Social | 07 Oct, 2012 | No Comments

From Jared Diamonds Pulitzer Prize winning book, Guns Germs and Steel. This documentary traces human history and asks the question, “Why did some societies thrive while others stayed in the stone[...]

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The FBI’s War on Black America

This documentary establishes historical perspective on the measures which were taken by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. These measures aimed to discredit black political figures and forces of the late 1960′s and early 1970′s. A secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) was initiated to subvert the will of the people to avoid the[...]

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Ghosts of Rwanda

History | 04 Oct, 2012 | 3 Comments

The Rwandan Genocide was the most bloody event of the 90s. Over the course of 100 days over 800,000 men women and children where slaughtered do to their ethnicity. Soon the U.N. intervened and the bloodbath subsided. This documentary goes into the reasons behind the massacre, the genocide and the aftermath. A truly horrifying film,[...]

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Bosnian Pyramids

History | 03 Oct, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun, with its height "of 220 meters, is much larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt, which was originally 147. The Bosnian Pyramid of the Moon, 190 meters, also higher than the Pyramid Keopsove. The third The Bosnian Pyramid of the Dragon, with the other two - the sun and[...]

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Hannibal: The Fall of Carthage

History | 03 Oct, 2012 | No Comments

Hannibal did not care to waste the power of Carthage? Legendary victories were ingenious strategist, paradoxically, the reason for the fall of this very rich business empire? Why Hannibal, at the height of his successful campaign, to refrain from attacking the city of Rome? Why was the military genius of Hannibal's defeat is not enough[...]

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The Vice Guide To Travel: Liberia

This is no ordinary travel documentary; this is total "Hell on Earth". Warlords, cannibalism, child soldiers on heroin, squalor and total madness. General Bin Laden, General Butnaked, General Mosquito...just imagine the scene in Baboon town. This is a black humorous look at what is a comical yet deadly situation...amazing! What Andy Capper, Editor Vice UK, is said about[...]

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Pompeii: The Last Day

History | 02 Oct, 2012 | 110 Comments

Pompeii: The Last brings to life one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of mankind. It is a dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD, portraying its different phases of eruption, which continued for over 24 hours. This eruption covered the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum[...]

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