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When faced with potential military escalation, Canada opted to resolve their conflict with the Soviet Union through a historic, best-on-best hockey series, providing common ground for both nations.
Featuring Wayne Gretzky, Vladislav Tretiak and Margaret Trudeau.
A psychiatrist and his patient fall in love in secret, and her false memories ignite a mass panic about Satanic cults. As featured in the New York Times, “The Satanic Panic that Never Goes Away!”
Spanning between past and present, Hidden Letters follows two millennial Chinese women connected by their fascination with the secret language of Nushu. This centuries-old hidden language bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood, hope and survival. Influenced by Nushu’s legacy of female solidarity, the two women struggle to find balance as they forge their own paths in a patriarchal culture.
Beautifully layered in After Sherman the filmmaker, Jon-Sesrie Goff follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.
The story of the golden age of Cuban baseball before the revolution and how the sport built a bridge between the island nation and U.S. Negro Leagues.
Narrated by James Earl Jones, this hour long documentary chronicles the rich history of Black baseball and examines the re-integration of the game.
Narrated by Billy Dee Williams. Celebrate the life of baseball’s most enduring legend; Satchel Paige was the single most important player in the old Negro Baseball Leagues.
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide by exploring the tangled web of responsibility that has driven a century of denial by the Turkish government and its strategic allies.
A WWII infantryman smuggles his portable camera into battle to create one of the most comprehensive and intimate records of the war.
An intimate portrait of Latin American icon Rubén Blades, this documentary explores the life, legacy, and political passions of a salsa legend.
An exploration of the life and philosophy of Srila Prabhupada, the controversial Indian swami whose teachings sparked a movement now known as Hare Krishna.
How a ragtag crew of misfits in the back of a Chicago factory created Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam and other classics amid the 1990’s arcade boom.
Unable to cope with the political, environmental and human fallout of the Chernobyl disaster, the Soviets build a wall of silence around the event.
A retrospective on John Kerry's tour of duty in Vietnam, his part in the peace movement that followed and the shape of his future political career.
Ultimately, everyone has their own subjective memory of the events that took place in Panama between Christmas and New Year of 1989 - when American troops deposed dictator Manuel Noriega, killing an unknown number of civilians in the process.