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- A documentary about H.H. Holmes who was a famed serial killer in the late 1800s. He had a whole murder castle built specifically for that purpose. He spent nearly a decade hiring and firing builders to add pieces to his house that included pipes for pumping gas into bedrooms, a room built specifically to suffocate people, and a murder basement where he would strip the skin from his victims.
- At last, for the first time here is a major new series of the most extraordinary stories behind the greatest crimes and trials of this century. True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage. Cases which have become almost legendary in the annals of crime and detection.
- Nosferatu, approaching his hundredth birthday, travels to sites used in the film, meets with experts, tells us about his "fathers" (the men who created the film), and reflects on changes in European society and culture since 1922.
- Mixing jazz and Latin American music, Leonard Bernstein's most famous work breaks with the codes of the traditional musical.
- Born in 1859, William Henry McCarty never knew his father. As a teenager, he followed his mother in a convoy of pioneers on their way west. Once in New Mexico, his mother died and the young man was left to fend for himself at the age of 15. He became a cowboy in Arizona and killed a man in self-defense. Convicted of murder, he escapes. From homicides to stories of cattle rustlers and bounty hunters, the whole mythology of the Wild West is embodied in Billy the Kid. Since King Vidor's "Billy the Kid" in 1930, the outlaw has fueled the imagination of some fifteen directors, the most memorable film being Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" in 1973.
- By launching its fleet against the Chinese junks in 1889, the British Empire declared one of the first wars motivated solely by economic interests. Deploring a trade balance largely in deficit with China, the United Kingdom wants to sell him its stocks of opium by force. Faced with resistance from the Qing Empire, the British went on the offensive in the name of free trade, whose pacificating virtues they were convinced of. Since this exemplary history of ambiguous relations between states, from cooperation to fierce competition, trade wars have been repeated, increasingly sophisticated but not always less bloody. The advent of the industrial revolution, liberalism and then globalization have multiplied the sources of conflict.
- An important pilgrimage site in antiquity, the island of Philae has fascinated travelers for centuries. On this rock rising from the Nile, nicknamed the "pearl of Egypt", powerful rulers have built monumental sanctuaries from the time of the last pharaohs to the Romans. Subsequently, the temples were looted, vandalized or transformed, before the successive construction of two dams in the 20th century sealed the fate of the island. To save the precious vestiges from the rising waters, an international campaign coordinated by UNESCO was undertaken in the 1970s. The objective: to dismantle the monuments stone by stone to rebuild them on a neighboring island.
- A newly discovered 500-year-old wreck offers vital clues to the evolution in ship design that made long-distance voyages practical.
- A look into the impact of disasters on society, the science behind these events, the role of engineering in disaster prevention and response, and the need for continued efforts to prevent similar disasters in the future.
- A film about Photography and Art.
- 1967–200355mNot RatedTV Episode
- 1997–200126mTV-14TV EpisodeWhen the enigmatic actress was swept off her feet by the charming silent star, John Gilbert, both their careers were almost destroyed when he took on Hollywood's mightiest moguls.
- 1997–200126mTV-14TV EpisodeIn what became one of Hollywood's most fascinating and stormiest affairs, two personal and public lives were ultimately broken by the pressure of their own success.