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This is the story of death and survival, exclusion and hope told by those who lived through it. 40 years ago an HIV infection seemed like a death sentence. When the first patients fell ill with high fever, pneumonia and fungal infections in the early 1980s, doctors were at a loss. Most of those affected were gay men, but the cause of the mystery illness escaped them.
After much protests and medical advancements, the stigma of HIV has lessened but the virus is still with us.

Silence = Death

This is the story of death and survival, exclusion and hope told by those who lived through it.

40 Years of AIDS

During the First World War France was badly hit, with cities such as Arras and Reims reduced to rubble. In World War II, allied bombings destroyed Germany with cities like Berlin, Cologne and Dresden in ruins by 1945. Later it was the turn of Beirut and then the cities of Syria to be destroyed by war. With extensive archive footage, this documentary looks at the political, social and aesthetic issues of ruins, the very image of war.

With extensive archive footage, this documentary looks at the political, social and aesthetic issues of ruins, the very image of war.

Ruins: A History of Contemporary Warfare

A few weeks before the end of World War II, a light aircraft took off from Berlin, before crash landing in a forest some 70 km to the east of the German capital. Who was on board this mysterious aeroplane? Where were they going? And did they survive?

Berlin - The Mysterious Crash of April 1945

Britain: June 1944. 270,000 mainly American, British and Canadian forces await the green light from General Eisenhower to begin the largest seaborne invasion in history. Filmmakers and photographers were aboard to document this highly dangerous and heroic mission.

Mysteries from the Archives

Images of D-Day

Germany 1915. The country is fighting the allied forces with the USA still to join the conflict. Two American reporters Wilbur Durborough Irving Ries, funded by Chicago businessmen, travel to Germany to film the country at war.

Germany at War (1915)

On November 2cnd 1930 Tafari Makonnen aged 38 became emperor of Ethiopia under the name of Haile Selassie. Festivities in Addis-Ababa lasted seven days with foreign emissaries from France, Italy and Britain invited to witness the splendour of the occasion

The Coronation of Haile Selassie

Cairo, 1970: President Nasser suddenly dies from a heart attack aged 52. Millions come out in force to mourn their leader’s passing in a day of strong emotion.

President Nasser's Funeral (1970)

Pope Jean Paul II’s visit to Poland in 1979 was met with euphoria in a majority Catholic country. The communist authorities, however, were less pleased and made sure that the visit was tightly controlled.

Pope John Paul II's Polish Visit (1979)

 
In 1929 students Helmut and Erna fall madly in love and it seems they have a bright future ahead of them. But one day Erna discovers that she has Jewish ancestry and with the rise of the Nazis, their very lives are in peril.
Through hundreds of letters and private family footage, the story of one German family is brought to life.

A German Family's Story

Through hundreds of letters and private family footage, the story of one German family's travails under National Socialism is brought to life.

Erna, Helmut and the Nazis

In August 1980, Lech Walesa became famous overnight. An electrician at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk and a member of the illegal strike committee, the man with the moustache fought for the creation of free trade unions. In less than two weeks, the charismatic man succeeded in getting the Communist government to accept the creation of the Solidarity trade union. His story was told in a 2013 biopic by Polish director Andrzej Wajda.

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40 Years of AIDS

Silence = Death

Ruins: A History of Contemporary Warfare

Berlin - The Mysterious Crash of April 1945

Images of D-Day

Mysteries from the Archives

Germany at War (1915)

Mysteries from the Archives

The Coronation of Haile Selassie

Mysteries from the Archives

President Nasser's Funeral (1970)

Mysteries from the Archives

Pope John Paul II's Polish Visit (1979)

Mysteries from the Archives

Erna, Helmut and the Nazis

A German Family's Story

True Stories

Lech Walesa: Man of Hope

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40 Years of AIDS

Silence = Death

Ruins: A History of Contemporary Warfare

Berlin - The Mysterious Crash of April 1945

Images of D-Day

Mysteries from the Archives

Germany at War (1915)

Mysteries from the Archives

The Coronation of Haile Selassie

Mysteries from the Archives

President Nasser's Funeral (1970)

Mysteries from the Archives

Pope John Paul II's Polish Visit (1979)

Mysteries from the Archives

Erna, Helmut and the Nazis

A German Family's Story

True Stories

Lech Walesa: Man of Hope

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20th Century