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New! Empire Builders: Icons of Conquest 60 min.

Discover the untold stories of ten famous pillaged treasures and the ongoing debate on their return. Victorious Empires have long benefitted from the fruits of conquest, through territorial expansion, wealth accumulation, and cultural dominance. But they also enriched themselves through the acquisition or cultural appropriation of monuments, objects, and icons. At worst the spoils of war have also...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2023

New! Empire Builders: The Inca Empire 59 min.

The Inca were one of the world's largest civilizations of the late Middle Ages until their conquest by the Spanish in 1533 in modern-day Peru and surrounding countries. The center was in Cusco in the Peruvian Highlands, and the Incas expanded into the largest pre-Columbian kingdom in the Americas, spreading across a diverse selection of climates such as the highlands of the Andes, plateaus, and ju...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2023

New! Empire Builders: The Pacific 120 min.

The idyllic Pacific Islands have been a battleground for centuries - from wars to colonial rivalry between France and UK to controversial nuclear tests by France and the United States. Indigenous Austronesian and Polynesian tribes fought one another for centuries, sometimes even eating their victims after successful conquests. In the 18th century, great European powers launched 'journeys of discov...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2023

New! Episode 1: Ancient Mariners (Empire Builders: The Pacific) 48 min.

In Episode 1: Ancient Mariners, we look at how the Polynesians spread out across the Pacific and examine the cultures they took with them, constructing elaborate temples to their beliefs in places like Easter Island, off the coast of Chile and Nanmadol in Micronesia. We also look at the warrior tribes of the Maori, who voyaged to New Zealand from Eastern Polynesia in the 14th century finding a pla...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2023

New! Episode 2: Pacific Conquests (Empire Builders: The Pacific) 53 min.

In Episode 2: Pacific Conquests, we look at the history of European colonisation of the Pacific. The Spaniards were the first to explore the region following the establishment of the galleon route between the Philippines and Acapulco in Mexico in the 16th and 17th centuries. Thereafter in the 18th and 19th centuries the British and French sought spheres of influence in the Pacific establishing col...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2023

New! Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed 105 min.

This intimate portrait of actor Rock Hudson celebrates his enduring legacy as a cinema icon who helped change the public perception of AIDS. Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed explores the story of a man living a double life — one whose public persona was carefully manufactured by his handlers and orchestrated by the studio system who feared the potential career-ending discovery that he was priv...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2023

New! Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court 114 min.

As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, the inside story of their path to power. How race, power and controversy collide in the rise of the Supreme Court Justice and his wife – a couple reshaping American law and politics.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2023

New! Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah 54 min.

The enduring story of the battle of Fallujah, told by the people who lived through it. Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, soldiers, journalists and ordinary Iraqis recount one of the defining episodes of the war.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2023

Being Mary Tyler Moore 121 min.

With unprecedented access to Mary Tyler Moore’s vast archive, Being Mary Tyler Moore chronicles the screen icon whose storied career spanned sixty years. Weaving Moore’s personal narrative with the beats of her professional accomplishments, the film highlights her groundbreaking roles and the indelible impact she had on generations of women who came after her.

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2023

Code Name Blue Wren 6 min.

She’s been called one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history. Ana Montes passed secrets and information to the Cuban government for almost 17 years until her arrest just days after the 9/11 attacks. After nearly two decades behind bars, she was recently released from prison. Jim Popkin chronicled Montes' fascinating story and joined Amna Nawaz to discuss his new book Code Name Blue Wren.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2023