In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence. As members of ‘Machal’ — volunteers from abroad — this ragtag band of brothers not only…

The story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner’s life.

The aristocratic sisters Charlotte and Caroline both fall in love with the controversial young writer and hothead Friedrich Schiller. Defying the conventions of their time, the sisters …

A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.

The story of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him for ever and the two women who guided him to immortality.

A documentary that questions the cost — and value — of higher education in the United States.

Johnny Depp pays a visit to Ralph Steadman, the renown artist and the last of the original Gonzo visionaries who worked alongside Hunter S. Thompson.

Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history.

Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.

Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.

At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela’s life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir — son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste — returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his …