A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
Albasheer Show is an Iraqi political satire television program hosted by comedian and journalist Ahmed Albasheer. The show first premiered in 2014 and has been broadcast on various platforms, including YouTube and satellite channels like DW Arabia. It is known for its sharp and humorous take on political and social issues in Iraq and the broader Arab world, focusing on topics such as corruption, sectarianism, and governmental inefficiency.
The show combines comedic monologues, satirical news reports, and sketch comedy to deliver its message. Its bold and unfiltered style has garnered a large following, particularly among young viewers in Iraq and the Middle East.
The discovery of oil brought unprecedented economic growth to humanity. Initially, oil was available in large quantities and cheap – but in 1973, a consequential oil price crisis hit, and the sticky commodity became part of a geopolitical poker game. The struggle for global resources is more relevant than ever.
The story of the Convoys is a tale of compelling drama, full of bravery and tragedy. It takes us into the lives of hundreds of thousands of unheralded men whose incredible everyday courage, played out in the cruel seas and cold skies of the North Atlantic changed the course of the war.
APO 923 was a proposed one-hour adventure television series, set in World War II and created by Gene Roddenberry. It was not picked up by the network, and only the pilot episode, "Operation Shangri-La", written by Roddenberry, was filmed. That episode can be viewed at The Paley Center for Media in New York City.
She is Italy’s most powerful woman and the first right-wing populist to lead a European democracy. Tough at home, moderate abroad, she has been firmly in government for three years, a long time in Italian politics. Who is Giorgia Meloni, and how has she been so successful? The answer lies in the tight clan she has been part of since her youth…
American Presidents: Life Portraits is a 41-episode, Peabody Award-winning series produced by C-SPAN in 1999. Each episode was aired live, and was a two- to three-hour look at the life and times of one particular President of the United States. Episodes were broadcast from locations of importance to the profiled president, featured interviews with historians and other experts, and incorporated calls from viewers. The series served as a commemoration of C-SPAN's 20th anniversary.
The first program aired on March 15, 1999, and profiled George Washington. Subsequent programs featured each president in succession, concluding with Bill Clinton on December 20, 1999.
Documents both the influences of alternative belief systems on the Nazi ideology and Hitler's personal philosophy, and the history and development of the ideas and symbols that would be used along with eugenicist racial politics to perpetrate the murder and oppression of millions during World War II.
On June 7, 1968, ETA assassinates José Pardines, a Guardia Civil officer. On May 3rd, 2018, a communiqué from the terrorist gang announces the dissolution of its structures. Fifty years of terror, fear, pain, truces, negotiations and 826 deaths lie between the two dates.
The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their province changes its affiliation between these countries four times. The governors from both sides do not always respect the culture and the feelings of Alsatians.
The Germanic, Britannic and other barbarian tribal wars with Rome ultimately led to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. This series is centered on the campaigns and battles with the barbarian tribes and extensive examinations of the reigns of little known Roman emperors and generals.
After a failed bombing plot targeting North Korean leadership in Seoul, prosecutor Cho Hyong Gyu is assigned to a classified investigation. A year later, he is drawn into a new case involving the theft of 3,000 military uniforms, uncovering a wider conspiracy, where he himself is a primary suspect.
Occupied Western Ukraine, 1944. The Soviet High Command is concerned about a large-scale, highly classified construction running through the line of the Soviet offensive. A reconnaissance unit is deployed and a Soviet scout is placed behind enemy's lines in order to obtain information about the project.