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What if everything you learned in history books were only half true? In Season 2, best-selling author and history buff Meltzer separates fact from fiction as he investigates the hidden history and coded truths behind everything from Mt. Rushmore to the Spear of Destiny to the Declaration of Independence.

Abbey, a typical teenager from Tennessee, enjoys being a Christian and going to church. She has never heard of Christians suffering for their faith in Christ. But when she travels to China with her dad, she learns of persecution of Christians in China.

An unlikely friendship blossoms between two ten-year-old boys from different backgrounds during the racially charged backdrop of rural Texas, 1964. Through the years into manhood, prevailing attitudes and the growing civil rights movement severely test their friendship. In the end, they will discover that despite people's differences, it's the memories you make that determine your happiness and peace in life.

This epic miniseries uncovers the great forces that helped shape the United States, chronicling the migratory patterns of ethnic groups that populated the country through the telling of historical events.

For five decades, Tony Buba has chronicled the industrial decline of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, with bleakly disarming humor and a boldly self-reflexive style. Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films present a two-disc collection of his newly restored films starting with his 1970s shorts and working its way through his feature-length masterpiece.

Comprehensively traces the development of this weapon, from the Drebbel boat of 1620, the egg-shaped boat of America's Revolutionary War, to the Holland boats of both WWI and WWII, through archival and never-before-seen footage.

"The cassette tape, as we know it, was originally released in 1968, it was the perfect combination of versatility, high quality & small size. A whole new generation of portable pocket-sized audio & video gadgets had cropped up to take its place, such as CD players, mp3 players and blue tooth devices. The sales of pre-recorded cassette tapes dropped off significantly in the early 1990s, but surprisingly as of recently, cassette tapes sales have been...

Alice Roberts follows an entire year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations. The results are astonishing, and sometimes disturbing.

Follow explorer and former Royal Marine Monty Halls on the path of the Freedom Trails. Tens of thousands of men and women staked their lives following these little-known routes through unknown, enemy territory and out of Nazi occupied Europe. The Freedom Trails led to safety, but many were extremely perilous. To find and complete them required the help of local resistance fighters, who risked their own lives to save others. Monty retraces these extraordinary...