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  • 2003
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    Prisoner of Paradise

    Prisoner of Paradise

    6.30 2003 HD

    The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt...

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  • 1990
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    New York City Opera: A Little Night Music

    New York City Opera: A Little Night Music

    9.20 1990 HD

    Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, a tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress Desirée Armfeldt and the men who love...

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  • 1995
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    Chicago 1968

    Chicago 1968

    1 1995 HD

    American Experience looks at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Vice President Hubert Humphrey won his party's nomination for...

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  • 2023
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    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    5.00 2023 HD

    Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She...

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  • 2023
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    After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics

    After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics

    1 2023 HD

    A year after the Uvalde school shooting, FRONTLINE documents the community's trauma and the fight over assault rifles. Journalist Maria Hinojosa...

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  • 2022
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    Putin's Road to War

    Putin's Road to War

    7.20 2022 HD

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  • 2019
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    China: Power and Prosperity

    China: Power and Prosperity

    1 2019 HD

    Covering China's powerful leader, his signature foreign policy, U.S.-China trade and technology wars, how Chinese technology helps stifle dissent,...

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  • 2016
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    The First Official Thanksgiving

    The First Official Thanksgiving

    1 2016 HD

    Documentary shares the story of Captain John Woodlief leading a group of 35 English settlers to America. “It’s important to tell the...

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  • 2025
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    Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny

    Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny

    1 2025 HD

    Hannah Arendt was one of the most fearless writers of the 20th century, and her report of the Adolf Eichmann trial coined the phrase, “the...

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  • 2020
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    Ken Burns: Here & There

    Ken Burns: Here & There

    1 2020 HD

    Explore the filmmaker’s life and career in interviews with colleagues, friends and Burns himself. The importance of place emerges as a theme as...

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  • 2009
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    Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

    Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

    1 2009 HD

    The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic --- traumatizing...

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  • 1982
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    Silent Rebellion

    Silent Rebellion

    7.00 1982 HD

    A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother and re-discover their heritage and each other....

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  • 2016
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    Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

    Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

    1 2016 HD

    A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia revealed a treasure trove of fossils from animals that lived ten million years after the KT...

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  • 1992
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    Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint

    Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint

    6.60 1992 HD

    Follow-up to Roger & Me.

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  • 1975
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    Henry James' The Jolly Corner

    Henry James' The Jolly Corner

    1 1975 HD

    Expatriate Spencer Brydon returns to his now-empty childhood home, and finds himself obsessed with what his life would have been, had he not left...

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  • 1992
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    Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

    Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

    7.00 1992 HD

    Satchmo. There are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied 20th-century...

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  • 2022
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    Nazca Desert Mystery

    Nazca Desert Mystery

    7.60 2022 HD

    One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures...

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  • 2024
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    Documenting Police Use of Force

    Documenting Police Use of Force

    1 2024 HD

    FRONTLINE and The Associated Press, in collaboration with the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism, investigate deaths that occurred after...

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  • 2024
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    Elton John & Bernie Taupin: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

    Elton John & Bernie Taupin: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

    1 2024 HD

    Artists from across the musical spectrum will join the national library and U.S. leaders to honor the great songwriting duo of Elton John and Bernie...

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  • 2011
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    Olmsted and America's Urban Parks

    Olmsted and America's Urban Parks

    1 2011 HD

    Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility...

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