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- DirectorRobert H. LiebermanStarsAung San Suu KyiShot clandestinely over a two year period, this film provides a rare look into the second most isolated country on the planet held in a stasis by a brutal military regime for almost a half century. From over 100 interviews of people across Burma, including the recently released Aung San Suu Kyi, interwoven with stunning footage of Burmese life this documentary is truly unique.
- DirectorChanoch Ze'eviStarsBettina GöringKatrin HimmlerMonika HertwigA look into the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi officials who worked under Hitler's command.
- DirectorVanessa LapaStarsTobias MorettiSophie RoisAntonia MorettiA documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.
- DirectorAntony ThomasStarsWill LymanCormac Murphy-O'ConnorPope FrancisFrom PBS and Frontline: Pope Benedict made history when he announced his resignation, becoming the first Pope to step down voluntarily in six hundred years. In his wake he left a bitterly divided Vatican mired in scandals. But is Benedict's successor, Pope Francis, taming the forces that helped destroy Benedict's papacy? Is he succeeding in lifting the Church out of crisis? Nearly a year in the making, this special FRONTLINE goes inside the Vatican - one of the world's most revered and mysterious institutions - to unravel the remarkable series of events that led to the resignation that shook the world. Through interviews with those at the very heart of what happened - cardinals, priests, convicted criminals, police, prosecutors and whistle-blowers - FRONTLINE gives a first-hand account of the final days of Benedict's papacy and the current battle to set the Church on a new path under Francis.
- DirectorTudor ApplenStarsJ.V. MartinPeter LevendaAdolf HitlerThe world knows how the Third Reich ended. Few know how it began. Mystics now forgotten by history conjured visions of a master race and foresaw peril from lesser races. Occult fanatics who rewrote history, and invented science. When Hitler seized power, the occult followed - right into his inner circle.
- DirectorJoe MedeirosStarsCelestina PeruggiaJoe MedeirosBenito MussoliniA man steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. His 84-year-old daughter thought he did it for patriotic reasons. A filmmaker spends more than 30 years trying to find the truth.
- DirectorBill GuttentagDan SturmanStarsHugo ArmstrongRosalind ChaoStephen DorffThrough readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
- DirectorIan RoumainMichael SchwartzStarsXander BerkeleyBruce DavisonCraig FairbrassFollows sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood.
- DirectorJoe PontecorvoStarsLiam NeesonFrom PBS - In the frigid valleys of Japan's Shiga Highlands, a troop of snow monkeys make their way and raise their families in a complex society of rank and privilege where each knows their place. Their leader is still new to the job and something of a solitary grouch. But one little monkey, innocently unaware of his own lowly social rank, reaches out to this lonely leader, forming a bond with him that manages over time to warm his less than sunny disposition. It is a rare and remarkable gesture that alters both their lives. Changing seasons bring new babies to care for, a profusion of insects and blossoms to eat, family disagreements to squabble over and tragedies to overcome. Mating season brings competition for females, as the days grow shorter and colder in a rush toward winter. But with their now confident leader to guide them and their families to shelter and care for them, this troop of snow monkeys is ready to face the world.
- DirectorDan CutforthJane LipsitzStarsAviciiFatboy SlimCalvin HarrisMore than 350,000 people celebrate electronic dance music at the 2013 Electric Daisy Carnival.
- DirectorSteve GooderStarsDaniel SternFrom PBS - "Honey badger is bad ass." Those words and corresponding video became a YouTube sensation with 51 million hits. This is one of the most fearless animals in the world, renowned for its ability to confront grown lions, castrate charging buffalo, and shrug off the toxic defenses of stinging bees, scorpions, and snakes. Our film will follow a team of researchers in South Africa who are searching for the truth behind the honey badger.
- DirectorEvan Grae DavisEvery year in India and China, millions of babies are killed, neglected or abandoned simply because they are girls.
- DirectorLawrence ShapiroStarsCharlie AdlerPamela AdlonCarlos AlazraquiSeveral voice actors discuss their art and their careers.
- StarsJames HollandRichard LinternTony PollardAn examination of Nazi Germany's various military engineering projects during World War II.
- 2012–7.2 (127)TV EpisodeDirectorSam TaplinStarsSamuel WestTracy BormanSiobhan ClarkeProgram about Henry VII's royal palace Hampton Court.
- DirectorSteven HoggardStarsLiev SchreiberSteve LuckertMitchell BardThe story of 350 American POWs held at a reclusive and secret concentraion camp administered by the Nazi regime.
- DirectorSteven HoggardStarsLiev SchreiberMichael BerenbaumMark JacobsonThe examination of a lampshade that might be made of the skin of Holocaust death camp victims is followed.
- DirectorNoah LamberthDavid TrotterStarsReddyNagarajuGeethaA documentary capturing the life and stories of 25 abandoned and orphaned children living along the railway in southern India.
- DirectorEdet BelzbergStarsCristina IonescuMihai Alexandre TudoseVioleta 'Macarena' RosuA profile of homeless Romanian children who were born victims of the nation's reckless population growth policy during its communist era.
- DirectorThaddaeus ScheelStarsMariska HargitayA documentary that follows four children from three different countries on their individual voyages from orphanages to their new homes with families in the United States.
- DirectorJohn MichalczykStarsDonald WinningArthur CaplanDonald DietrichIn the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine examines the step-by-step process that led the German medical profession down an unethical road to genocide.
- DirectorDoug ShultzStarsKate GrabauLindsay HopperBebe NeuwirthA memorial concert reawakens the story of an artistic uprising in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin, where a chorus of 150 inmates confronts the Nazis face-to-face - and sings to them what they dare not say.
- DirectorMalcolm ClarkeStarsAliza Sommer-HerzZdenka FantlovaAnita Lasker-WallfischAliza Sommer-Herz, aged 109 and the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, tells the story of how music saved her life: both during her time at Theresienstadt concentration camp and in the years afterwards.
- DirectorLutz HachmeisterStarsUdo SamelKenneth BranaghHeinrich BrüningThrough archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.