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Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and collegue Inez Mulholland gives up...

A biography of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

Albert Narracott enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse Joey is sold to the cavalry.

Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a violent mutiny when he refused orders to kill female...

As Winston Churchill's personal bodyguard for nearly 18 years, Walter H. Thompson saw history unfold firsthand. This program puts you inside the skin of a working-class Scotland Yard detective who experienced the 20th-century's great events as both witness and participant.

A story of women, a story of progress, forged by courage.

After he has the minister of defense executed, the Eunuch of the Emperor sends assassins after the man's children, but they are challenged by a mysterious group of fighters who seek justice.

The remarkable Holocaust story of the Jews of Belgium is told through the life of a remarkable man, professor Shaul Harel, who survived the Holocaust at four years old through the kindness of Jews and Christians alike.

Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidence in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.

It is Lisbon, 1940 and an American adventurer and a nightclub singer are caught up in the most sensational espionage story of World War when the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor become the targets of a vicious Nazi plot to kidnap the former British monarch.