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- DirectorMaya SarfatyStarsHelena CitronRoza CitronFrank WunschThe tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
- 2020– 1h 14mTV-MA6.8 (7K)TV EpisodeDirectorSamantha StarkStarsBritney SpearsLiz DayFelicia CulottaHer rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over who should control her life.
- StarsAdam RichmanAdam Richman visits baking behemoth Entenmann's to see how they keep up with America's insatiable demand for delicious and dunkable chocolate chip cookies. Then, find out how Otis Spunkmeyer creates the cookies you find at some of the biggest restaurant chains in America. From fortune cookies to your favorite childhood treats, Adam becomes a connoisseur in this episode for all things cookies.
- CreatorBruce NashStarsLloyd SherrHarlan SapersteinAdam RichmanFast-paced, fun and informative, Modern Marvels is The History Channel's signature series focusing on historical technology.
- DirectorBrad GrimmStarsRomi KherLibby O'ConnellVallery LomasHollywood agent Wally Amos transforms his professional life when he decides to make and sell his own gourmet chocolate chip cookies, and opens America's first cookie store; housewife Debbi Fields opens her home-style cookie shop in a mall.
- StarsCampbell ScottAdam RichmanJason LiebigFood will tell the unknown stories of innovation and rivalries behind food industry tycoons Milton Hershey, John and Will Kellogg, Henry Heinz, C.W. Post, the McDonald brothers and more.
- DirectorElle SchneiderStarsJessica HarrisYohuru WilliamsLibby O'ConnellA business partnership gone wrong leads Adolphus Green to create one of the most iconic cookie and cracker companies in history, and it revolutionizes packaging.
- StarsLaurence FishburneFollowing the March 9, 2022 news announcement of the history-making discovery of Shackleton's ship, Endurance, this documentary serves as a definitive look at Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic and ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition resulting in the loss of his highly revered ship, as well as maritime archaeologists' mission to find this "holy grail" of shipwrecks. This 90-minute special will serve as a continuation of the network's commitment to telling the complete Shackleton story following the previously aired "Endurance: The Hunt for Shackleton's Ice Ship" which chronicled the first, ground-breaking expedition to locate the lost ship by the same leadership team on the same vessel in 2019. The two-hour documentary, which originally aired on November 28, 2020 as part of the series "History's Greatest Mysteries," was the result of two years of planning and over $250 million spent in technology utilizing the same vessel, the S.A. Agulhas II. Many of the same crew were aboard when their news made international headlines when they discovered the ship on the bottom of the Weddell Sea.
- StarsIan KarrJordan HembroughAdam RichmanThe story of the Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley and Ruth Handler who transformed a small toy company into the billion-dollar empire now known as Mattel.
- Featuring sit-down interviews with experts and historians, follows the story of the Japanese American soldiers of WWII who fought for the ideals of American democracy.
- StarsIan KarrDaniel DickrellYohuru WilliamsIt looks at iconic structures such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the Panama Canal and the Transcontinental Railroad.
- StarsCampbell ScottAdam RichmanNigel BarberThe stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
- StarsKareem Abdul-JabbarIbram X. KendiJelani CobbThe impact key protests have had on the evolution of the United States, from past to present and explore the question: Does the arc of the moral universe bend toward justice when pressure is applied?
- DirectorStanley NelsonWhen Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968, he left a legacy of profound change. This one-hour documentary explores the key battles in the Civil Rights Movement that transformed American society-from the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 to the Chicago Campaign which led to the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The special will uncover what it took to translate protest into real legislative change.
- StarsDoug MarcaidaDavid Lain BakerBen AbbottFour custom knife makers compete to make the best usable knife through a series of challenges.
- StarsPeter CoyoteMandy PatinkinJosh LucasExploring the life and work of writer and publisher, scientist and inventor, diplomat and signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution: Benjamin Franklin.
- StarsBarack ObamaA five-part documentary series about the world's most breathtaking national parks and the wildlife that live there.
- 20211h 58mPG-138.0 (14K)96MetascoreDirectorQuestloveStarsDorinda DrakeBarbara Bland-AcostaDarryl LewisDocumentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.
- DirectorMargaret BrownIn 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.
- DirectorMargaret BrownStarsTheodore ArthurGary AutreyChris DavisFollows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.
- StarsHenry Louis Gates Jr.CeCe MooreAnita HillBefore the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulges the family trees of various celebrities, many times with stunning revelations.
- DirectorVicky MatthewsStarsCraig SechlerJames DelgadoJoycelyn DavisArchaeologists investigate a wreck that could be the last ever slave ship to bring Africans to American soil through the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- DirectorSimon StoneStarsCarey MulliganRalph FiennesLily JamesAn archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.
- DirectorMandla DubeStarsThabo RametsiArnold VoslooNoxolo DlaminiFollows three young freedom fighters who seek refuge in a South African bank in Silverton, and take the bank and its customers hostage and would only release them in exchange for the release of Nelson Mandela.
- DirectorAviva KempnerStarsPeter AscoliJulian BondStephanie DeutschThe movie shows the work that Rosenwald did in his efforts, with Booker T. Washington, to build over 5, 300 schools for African-American children.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDaniel Day-LewisSally FieldDavid StrathairnAs the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.
- DirectorKathryn EllingerEdmund MoriartyStarsMatt LucasPhil DavisHerta GoldschmidtComedian, presenter and actor Matt Lucas had an exceptionally close bond with his late grandmother, Margot, who came to the UK in 1939 as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany. Matt learns of Margot's experiences in Berlin during that time.
- DirectorPhilip KnowltonStarsPat BlairAdam DriscollAndrew KnowltonWhen three young men set off to cross the United States on single-speed, fixed-gear bicycles, the physical challenge itself is incredibly daunting. But these are not just three tough guys; they ride to raise money and awareness for diabetes and to help disabled Kenyan kids. The film focuses on Adam, himself a Type-1 diabetic who has to manage his illness while riding up to 150 miles a day. And it tells the touching stories of two diabetic children the group meets along the way, and how they change the men's lives. But the ride has its comical side, too: The three are chased by wild dogs in Kentucky, ditch their rain-battered tent in Kansas to sleep on picnic tables, engage in an insane game of "foot down" with a bunch of bikers in Oregon, and struggle hilariously to achieve their goal of singing karaoke in all 16 states they pass through on their zigzag 6,500-mile journey. The trip is one of amazing discovery - of a country of stunning natural beauty and of a nation of incredibly kind and generous souls passed along the way. "Adventures for the Cure" is narrated by the three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond.
- DirectorJoss CrowleyStarsShania TwainKelsea BalleriniMarc BouwerFrom Nashville newcomer to international icon, singer Shania Twain transcends genres across borders amid triumphs and setbacks in this documentary.
- StarsBettany HughesAdrienne MayorRebecca DimechThe drama led documentary series presents history's most iconic female fighters. Each extraordinary tale of blood, sacrifice and endurance centres on the life of one young woman warrior caught up in the bloody struggles of her time.
- DirectorJohanna HamiltonYoruba RichenStarsMary Frances BerryKeisha N. BlainHerb BoydThe unexpected story of Parks and her life beyond the historic bus boycott, revealing the intent behind her activism, her radical politics and her courage.
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsEmily WatsonUlrich TukurIan HartDuring Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
- DirectorDoron PazYoav PazStarsAugust DiehlSylvia HoeksMichael AloniIn 1945, a group of Jewish holocaust survivors planned to poison the water system in Germany. The film tells the dangerous and bold secret-operation which was called - Plan A.
- DirectorOrlando von EinsiedelFrom Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel (THE WHITE HELMETS, VIRUNGA) and producer Leonardo DiCaprio, FROM DEVIL'S BREATH tells the unlikely first-person story of two remarkable narratives that come crashing together; the extraordinary community of survivors of the deadly 2017 wildfires in Portugal, fighting to ensure what they've lived through can never happen again; and a revolutionary, world-changing scientific discovery which could help protect us all from the climate emergency.
- DirectorJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsAlex HonnoldTommy CaldwellJimmy ChinAlex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.
- DirectorGabriela CowperthwaiteStarsTilikumDave DuffusSamantha BergA documentary following the controversial captivity of killer whales, and its dangers for both humans and whales.