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Atari. Nintendo. Sega. Sony. Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars is the untold story of the personal and professional battles that gave rise to the $100 billion video game industry. Brought to life by Oscar winning director Daniel Junge, this is a tale of brilliant innovati...ons, colossal failures, and ego-driven rivalries akin to Steve Jobs versus Bill Gates. It is a 50-year-long, multi-generation epic featuring corporate coups, industrial espionage, secret burial grounds and the promise of unimaginable riches just one cartridge away. The only constant through the saga is this: just when you think youve won the battle, youre actually at your most vulnerable.
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Entering the American consciousness as the glamorous first lady who brought youth, culture and sophistication to the White House, Jacquelin Bouvier Kennedy Onassis became a media obsession after her husbands assassination and embodiment of Americas grief.Escaping to the privacy o...f the Onassis compound in Greece, she eventually returned to New York, reinventing herself as a book editor while establishing control over her own life, finally free from the shadow of powerful men.Exploring the character of a woman living through tragedy in the public eye and remaking her life, I Am Jackie O follows a legacy that transcends her role as presidents wife and national widow and cements her as one of the most important cultural icons in American history.
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This feature-length special charts the rise of a cultural phenomenon that came to define a generation: MTV. What started during the nascent days of cable television as a scrappy, playful music video line-up, rapidly evolved into a reflection of American youth culture. As MTV came... of age, the network pushed the boundaries of art, sex, gender and race, while cementing its image to celebrity. I Want My MTV weaves together exclusive interviews with the networks founders and VJs, journalists and artists - including Sting, Pat Benatar, Billy Idol, Annie Lennox, Darryl DMC McDaniels and more - along with rarely seen archival footage and outtakes, to paint a fun, fascinating picture of a music channel that would influence the global media landscape for decades to come.
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Meet the titans of industry who forged the foundations of a modern America and continue to inspire the pursuit of the fabled American Dream. In this epic mini-series, HISTORY shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats of enterprise during t...he Gilded Age transformed the United States from a nation reeling the Civil War into the greatest economic and technological powerhouse in the world. From oil baron John D. Rockefeller, transport tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, to automotive pioneer Henry Ford and corporate financier J.P. Morgan, The Men Who Built America tells the story of a nation at the crossroads, and of the people who catapulted it to prosperity.
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When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, his fiance and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover-up perpetrated by the very country he loved....
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This feature-length documentary captures the amazing life and times of the United States' forgotten founding father: Alexander Hamilton. Exploring the iconic American political and financial institutions he helped to create, from the US Mint and Wall Street to the two-party polit...ical system, well examine Hamiltons enormous influence that still resonates today, more than two centuries after his tragic and untimely death in an infamous duel with sitting Vice President Aaron Burr. Ron Chernow, whose biography 'Alexander Hamilton' served as the basis for the hit Broadway play, along with other notable names including respected journalists Tom Brokaw and Maria Bartiromo, contribute to an all-encompassing look at one of America's most accomplished leaders.
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Marking the centenary of the death of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), this special cinema event will delve into the story of a remarkable talent that surpassed legend and stereotypes. From his origins in Livorno, home of the Macchiaioli, to the Paris of Picasso and Brancusi that b...ecame the centre of modernity, to his love for Jeanne Hbuterne, MAVERICK MODIGLIANI uncovers stunning work of the avant-garde artist who became a contemporary classic - his life and art lived to the last breath.
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks was a fearless e...xplorer of unknown mental worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity.
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A hundred years ago, the Great War killed an estimated 16 million people. Chris Tarrant travels across Britain, France, Belgium and Germany, to tell the story of the machine that lead to death on such an horrendous scale it was not the machine gun, the first warplanes or tanks or... even mustard gas but the railway!
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Filmed across one extraordinary year in New York City's Westbeth Artists Housing, video artist Edith Stephen (95) hopes to complete an experimental film for her birthday; revered contemporary dancer Dudley Williams (75) rehearses for an electrifying return to the stage; and publi...shed poet Ilsa Gilbert (82) faces her impending mortality with revealingly candid poetry. An inspirational story about community, ageing and the need to keep creating.
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