Secret Nazi Expeditions S01E06 Runes of Power
Runes of Power
Runes are the letters of an ancient Germanic writing. Himmler made rune studies obligatory for SS officers as he believed they held mystical power and even placed protective runes on SS uniforms and buildings.
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Secret Nazi Expeditions S01E05 Cro Magnon
Cro Magnon
Over centuries, researchers have come closer to understanding the true origins of humanity, but there are still fundamental questions up for debate. Himmler, and the Nazi's SS, attempt to prove the Paleolithic past of Germany's Aryan race.
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Secret Nazi Expeditions S01E04 Into the Mountains
Into the Mountains
The Nazis claim the Himalayas are home to mythical powers and their Aryan ancestors. Himmler's belief in this theory led to an SS mission to the mountains hunting for traces of the Aryan's while Germany teetered on the brink of war.
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Secret Nazi Expeditions S01E03 The Holy Grail Quest
As the Third Reich rises to power, Himmler fixates on the Holy Grail, interpreting the myth surrounding it as fact. Whether as a trophy or a magical weapon to victory in war, the Nazis were desperate to secure this relic as their own.
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Secret Nazi Expeditions S01E02 Walking with Witches
Walking with Witches
In Nazi Germany, questions about witchcraft attracted SS leaders. Himmler, dedicated to an Aryan super race, established a Special Assignment research team led by Reinhard Heydrich to research witchcraft practices.
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Secret Nazi Expeditions S01E01 The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent
Atlantis, The legendary continent that sank. As the Nazis rose to power, Himmler and the SS were convinced Atlantis existed. From an ancient city, to rock carvings in Sweden, the Ahnenerbe searched for the whereabouts of Atlantis.
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A Plastic Ocean
A Plastic Ocean begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.
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Risk
Filmed over six years, Risk (2016) is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired. Capturing this story, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle.
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Titanoboa Monster Snake
Meet Titanoboa: She's longer than a bus, eats crocodiles for breakfast and makes the anaconda look like a garter snake.
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Scream The True Story
Explores the horrific story of serial killer Danny Rolling, aka The Gainesville Ripper, who believed he was a possessed by a demon and whose gruesome crime spree inspired the blockbuster film Scream
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Collapse
A documentary on Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness.
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Blackfish
Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
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Zero Days
Documentary detailing claims of American/Israeli jointly developed malware Stuxnet being deployed not only to destroy Iranian enrichment centrifuges but also threaten attacks against Iranian civilian infrastructure. Adresses obvious potential blowback of this possibly being deployed against the US by Iran in retaliation.
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Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents. Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film.
For readers captivated by the story of Antonina Zabinski as told in The Zookeeper's Wife and other stories of rescue missions during WWII, Defying the Nazis is an essential read.
In 1939, the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: they were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Seventeen ministers had been asked to undertake this mission and had declined; Rev. Sharp was the first to accept the call for volunteers in Europe.
Armed with only $40,000, Waitstill and Martha quickly learned the art of spy craft and undertook dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of World War II. After narrowly avoiding the Gestapo themselves, the Sharps returned to Europe in 1940 as representatives of the newly formed Unitarian Service Committee and continued their relief efforts in Vichy France.
A fascinating portrait of resistance as told through the story of one courageous couple, Defying the Nazis offers a rare glimpse at high-stakes international relief efforts during WWII and tells the remarkable true story of a couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to risk their lives to save countless others.
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Hearts and Minds
A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
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Jerusalem
JERUSALEM is an immersive experience about one of the world's most beloved cities. Discover why this tiny piece of land is sacred to billions of people and how archaeology is uncovering secrets of Jerusalem's past.
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The Day Israel Attacked America
The shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel. One of the best documentaries in 2016.
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Mysterious Planet S01E05.The Forgotten Forest
Join David Schwimmer in a rainforest on the doorstep of Rio, but it's not the Amazon. Fifty times smaller, but just as rich, Mata Atlantica is one of Earth's great biodiversity hotspots. Discover how it came to exist, and how it was forgotten.
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Mysterious Planet S01E03.Mountains of Fire and Ice
Journeys through the Andes, a mountain range with two different worlds: a fortress of fire, ruled by a phoenix, and a land of ice, conquered by a master of stealth. But how did they come to rule such hostile lands?
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Mysterious Planet S01EO1 Islands of the Dragon King
Islands of the Dragon King
Dragons and zombie chicks, punk monkeys and hobbits -- the pig with tusks that pierce its forehead and a bird that rode on an island boat. These things really exist, but why only here?.
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Mysterious Planet S01E04.Roof of Africa
Roof of Africa
Join David Schwimmer, pretend naturalist, in the Ethiopian Highlands, home to animals found nowhere else on Earth. In this high-altitude realm, geological forces create and destroy, and survival depends on sticking together and dominating your rivals.
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L'île aux Cannibales-Cannibal Island
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary returns to the island.
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Mysterious Planet S01E02.Giants of the Caribbean
Giants of the Caribbean
David Schwimmer discovers why 400 whale sharks gather off the coast of Mexico, kind of like Woodstock but for sharks. From a meteorite hurtling through space, to a world of monsters and alien life forms, uncover the mysteries of these Caribbean giants.
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Shock Docs Amityville Horror House
In 1977, "The Amityville Horror" book was published and caused a sensation. The subsequent 1979 film adaptation was a surprise box office hit. It was a film that changed everything. It terrified audiences and became a film and story that people continue to return to. Today, it is the quintessential American horror story based on TRUE events. This is the story of the all-American family that moves into their dream house in the all-American town and experiences the most terrifying demonic haunting imaginable. Demon possession, demon attacks, a portal to hell. A situation so dire, even the church couldn't help them. Through archival footage and recreations, the special, produced by 1895 Films, presents the harrowing true story of Robert Defeo, who murdered his entire family in the Amityville house, and the 28 terror-filled days the Lutz family lived in the house.
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The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein gives a lecture tracing the confluence of ideas about modifying behavior using shock therapy and other sensory deprivation and modifying national economics using the "shock treatment" of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School. She moves chronologically: Pinochet's Chile, Argentina and its junta, Yeltsin's Russia, Bush and Bremer's Iraq. A trumped-up villain provides distraction or rationalization: Marxism, the Falklands, nuclear weapons, terrorists; and always a great shift of money and power from the many to the few. News footage, a narrator, and talking heads back up Klein's analysis. She concludes on a note of hope.
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