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Hillsborough (2016) | BBC Documentary

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Hillsborough 
Hillsborough is an in-depth, moving account of Britain's worst sporting disaster, in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised.
Beginning with that fateful day, 15 April 1989, the film details the horror of the tragedy, told through the experiences of those directly involved: fans, survivors, family members and police officers. Many speak publicly for the first time.
It captures the horror of the crush on the terraces, revealing the prejudices held by the police towards football fans. It exposes the police commanders' abject failure in leadership as the tragedy unfolded, and their deceit and determination to deflect responsibility for their failures in crowd management onto those who survived.
The documentary exposes the lack of dignity shown to bereaved families as they arrived in Sheffield to identify their loved ones laid out in body bags on a gymnasium floor. It considers the impact of the orchestrated vilification of fans in the media and, as a consequence, their public condemnation. By interviewing those involved, it recounts the 27-year campaign for justice fought on behalf of the 96 who died.


 Hillsborough
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 02:00:00 min
 Language: English





McCullin | Documentary Film

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McCullin 
The documentary shows how Don McCullin created some of the latter twentieth-century's most iconic images of man's inhumanity to man. To many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer, often cited as an inspiration for today's photojournalists. For the first time, McCullin speaks candidly about his three-decade career covering wars and humanitarian disasters on virtually every continent and the photographs that often defined historic moments. Working at a critical time in global photojournalism, he witnessed the change of ethos to publishing and editorial freedom for newspapers to print what they wanted, free from constraints of advertisers. He brought the impact and reality of human conflict to the general reader, going on war assignments sometimes with only twenty rolls of film.He was shooting with a respect for image now disappearing from the digital age; and we have shot our film on 16mm in order to compliment his work.



 McCullin 
 Production: British Film Company
 Duration: 01:35:00 min
 Language: English






Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton | BBC Documentary

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Children Saved from the Nazis: 
The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
This film, tells the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of the Nazis, bringing them by train to Britain. It is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler has invaded Czechoslovakia, threatening the lives of the Jewish population. Nicholas Winton, a young British stockbroker, decides he will do everything possible to save the lives of as many Jewish children as he can.
For nearly fifty years, Nicholas told no-one of his heroic deeds. His incredible story might never have come to light were it not for his wife who, fifty years later, found a suitcase in the attic containing a remarkable scrapbook full of documents and transport plans. Featuring Nicholas's final film interview before his death last year aged 106, dramatic reconstruction of events and the testimonies of the rescued children.



 Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:29 min
 Language: English






One Day In Auschwitz (2015) | Documentary Film

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One Day In Auschwitz (2015)
Auschwitz-Birkenau was designed to kill. Four gas chambers murdered thousands at a time, belching out smoke and human ashes. Starvation, thirst, disease, and hard labor reduced the average lifespan to less than three months. More than 1-million people perished in the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
Seventy years after her liberation, Kitty Hart-Moxon makes a final return to Auschwitz-Birkenau to walk among the crumbling memorial with students Natalia and Lydia, who, at 16, are the same age now as she was then. As Kitty tells them her story of daily existence, themes begin to emerge: the ever-present threat of death, resilience, friendship, human strength, resisting the Nazis' constant lethal intent, and living like an animal while still remaining human. Natalia and Lydia ask questions; Kitty provides answers, passing her legacy to the next generation.






 One Day In Auschwitz
 Director: Steve Purcell
 Duration: 48:39 min
 Language: English





Winston Churchill: A Giant In The Century | Documentary Film

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Winston Churchill: A Giant In The Century
Beyond the famous speeches and wealth of media material on the statesman, we span the century as seen from behind the scenes of an exceptional itinerary in order to capture the true dimension of one of the greatest European political figures. Like a thrilling biopic, by turn moving, funny and epic, our documentary is up to its hero.
Carefully remastered and colorized, the film draws from a wealth of visual and sound archives, to give an all-encompassing view of both the private and public man. Through the contrasted chapters of his existence, it thus offers a new, unseen before perspective on Churchill’s character and how he related to power and his contemporaries in order to lift the veil on a colourful, puzzling, paradoxical and captivating personality.






 Winston Churchill: A Giant In The Century
 Production: ARTE
 Duration: 01:31:34 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English


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The Great Train Robbery | BBC Documentary

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The Great Train Robbery
Perhaps the greatest trick the men behind the 1963 robbery ever pulled wasn't lifting over £3 million from a Glasgow-London mail train, but convincing the public of their near-mythical status.Fifty years on, this documentary looks at the truth behind the heist. Find out how two of the convicted robbers escaped, including, most famously Ronnie Biggs and three were never caught, escaping with the cash.See new interviews with Biggs' wife and the police officers who discovered their hidout. This documentary could be the last chance to find out the answers from the only people who really know what happened.



 The Great Train Robbery
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 44:55 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English






Last Days in Vietnam | Documentary film

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Last Days in Vietnam
During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempted to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confronted a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens or risk being charged with treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they could. With time running out and the city under fire, an unlikely group of heroes emerged as Americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands.








 Last Days in Vietnam
 Production: PBS
 Duration: 01:53:10 min
 Subtitles: 
 Language: English




Killing Kennedy | Documentary film

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Killing Kennedy
Based on the best-selling book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy begins in 1959, at major turning points for both the future president and his assassin. John F. Kennedy is in Washington, D.C., preparing to announce his presidential candidacy, while Lee Harvey Oswald finds himself in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, renouncing his U.S. citizenship. These two events start both men-one a member of one of the United States' most wealthy and powerful families, the other a disillusioned former Marine and Marxist-on a cataclysmic track that would alter the course of history. Throughout the film, we see their highs and lows, culminating in not one but two shocking deaths that stunned the nation.




 Killing Kennedy
 Production: National Geographic
 Duration: 01:26:49 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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Part 2


Heroes of War Poland: Cracking Enigma | Documentary Film

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Heroes of War Poland: Cracking Enigma
Documentary takes up the story of how the British broke the “Enigma” encryption machines of the German armed forces using the knowledge gained by Poland in the 1930s. Working for the Cypher Bureau of the Polish General Staff, and using only encrypted messages, mathematician Marian Rejewski and two colleagues reverse-engineered an Enigma machine and built a “cryptologic bomb” to translate messages




 Heroes of War Poland: Cracking Enigma
 Production: History Channel
 Duration: 45:58 min 
 Subtitles: Greek Built 
 Language: English 





Churchill's Betrayal of Poland | Documentary Film

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Churchill's Betrayal of Poland
The mysterious death of General Sikorski
What really happened on the 4th of July, 1943 in Gibraltar?
The film examines Sikorski's death and shows that there is little doubt that the crash in July of 1943 was an assassination attempt, in which the Russian or British intelligence and possibly even Stalin and Churchill are not entirely uninvolved. Detailed re-enactment, archival footage, interviews and stunning cinematography of the landscape of Gibraltar carry the film. Krakow, 2008: The body of one of Poland's most important statesmen is exhumed - General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile during World War II. His life was lost at sea on the 4th of July 1943, sixteen seconds after takeoff aboard a Liberator plane that mysteriously crashed. 70 years later the Polish prosecutors continue to investigate the case, which remains to this day an unsolved crime in history. The suspicion is murder. But who is the perpetrator? The plane crashed in British territory. The British claim it was an accident, but the files associated with the case have been classified until 2041.


 Churchill's Betrayal of Poland
 Production: NDR/arte, TVN S. A.
 Duration: 46:37 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English




The 80s - 90s : Greatest Tragedies | Nat Geo Documentaries

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The 80s - 90s : Greatest Tragedies 
Documentary exploring some of the most devastating events of the 1980s and 1990s, beginning with the most tragic stories to hit the headlines, from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Chernobyl meltdown and the Bhopal gas tragedy to the devastating death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the shooting of Italian designer Gianni Versace, the sinking of the MS Estonia and suicides in Quebec and Switzerland.





 The 80s - 90s : Greatest Tragedies 
 Production: National Geographic
 Duration: 45:00 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English


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Episode 1: The 80s 

Episode 2: The 90s 


Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live | Documentary Film

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Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
This special seeks to explain the enigmatic Oswald using a brand new approach. No other documentary has exclusively traced Oswald's actions in the minutes, hours and days following the events in Dallas. By shifting the focus on that November weekend, we're able to tell a familiar story in an unfamiliar way, providing a refreshing new perspective on Oswald himself, as well as on the Kennedy assassination. Ultimately, we will lay bare the suspect's final two days, revealing why the Dallas police were convinced they had Kennedy's killer. On his way to the police station after his arrest at the Texas Theater, an officer asked Oswald whether or not he killed the president. Oswald snidely replied: "You find out for yourself." Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live eagerly takes up Oswald's 50-year-old challenge.





 Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
 Production: History Channel 
 Duration: 01:24:05 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English

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Blood and Oil - The Middle East in World War I | Documentary Film

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Blood and Oil - The Middle East in World War I
Examines the devastating conflict and Western political intrigue that laid the foundation for wars, coups, revolts and military interventions in the Middle East. After the end of World War I, most of the Ottoman Empire was carved up into "spheres of influence," controlled mostly by the British and French. The remaining territories became the modern state of Turkey in 1923 - after a five-year struggle by Turkish nationalists against Western domination. Written and produced by Marty Callaghan ("Archives of War," "Remember Pearl Harbor: America Taken by Surprise"), this feature-length documentary film follows conflict from the Ottoman Empire's entry into the Great War in October 1914 to the Allied victory and declaration of the new Turkish Republic in 1923, and the hostilities that have plagued the region since.




 Blood and Oil - The Middle East in World War I
 Directed By: Marty Callaghan 
 Duration: 43:31 min
 Language: English



Terror - Made in America | BBC Documentary Film

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Terror - Made in America
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln & Oklahoma City Bombing
Separated by 100 years, two extremists tried to destroy the democratic foundations and freedoms in America. In Washington, it was a single man: president Abraham Lincoln. In Oklahoma City, one bomb will kill and maim hundreds of people.






 Terror - Made in America
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 50:33 min
 Subtitles: Greek Built
 Language: English