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In 1739 Persian Emperor Nadir attacked Delhi and returned to Persia loaded with treasure. When he was assassinated, a young general named Ahmad Shah Durrani took the Kohinoor diamond off Nadirs corpse and escaped back to Afghanistan. Now, we follow writer and explorer Tahir Shah in his quest is for the legendary treasure, allegedly hidden in one of the many Buddhist cave complexes in the country. Shah relies on a collection of notes from his grandfather, whose search was interrupted by the outbreak of WWII. He investigates the famous Timurid minarets of Heart and visits the oldest mosaic tile workshop in the world, as well as travelling with a legendary Hoopoe bird in a cage and provoking people in teahouses to tell him stories. Finally Shah comes up with a hypothesis that the treasure should be hidden in the Bamyan valley, where the Taliban blew up the great Buddha statues in 2001... Search For The Lost Treasure Of Afghanistan, The
On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Union's Yury Gagarin became the first man in space, in a successful flight that lasted 108 minutes. Gagarin and his famous charming smile became the symbol of the Soviet Union. But on March 27, 1968the star of Gagarin was gone. Last flight of Yury Gagarin: What killed the space icon К дню космонавтики
Sea of Death is the ultimate documentary film about a catastrophe many times greater than Titanic: the sinking of three German refugee ships at the end of World War II when 20 000 people lost their lives. It combines unique under water footage from the divers who discovered the Steuben in 2005, interviews with survivors who have kept their trauma a secret for sixty years and access to secret sources in Russia that case new light on the tragic event. Towards the end of the Second World War millions of German civilians fled from the onslaught of the Soviet Army. Women, children, hospitalized soldiers together they crammed the Polish ports, their last chance of being evacuated. The situation was chaotic, the ships were loaded way over capacity. Off the coast, Soviet submarines were lying in wait, ready to attack any ship that ventured out into the Baltic Sea. The under water footage of the three wrecks Wilhelm Gustloff, Steuben and Goya is starkingly graphic: personal belongings left in panic sixty years ago Sea Of Death
Secret operations at the North Pole, parachute agents in Ukraine and helicopter missions in North Korea the CIAs spying methods in the Cold War seem to come from a James Bond film. With revealing interviews and rare and spectacular archive film material, this startling documentary reveals many of the recklessly dangerous schemes undertaken by the CIA to win the undeclared war for hegemony in the world. Behind Enemy Lines
Part 2 in the Zeitgeist Series: Addendum attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. Zeitgeist: Addendum
Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them. Killer Legends
Bitten by the 'Moonbug', photographer Steve Pyke set out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavours of our time. From living rooms and moonscape deserts, to Cape Canaveral, Steve captures these men in frank, revealing portraits, while unravelling their very personal and divergent memories. With rare archive footage and an original score by Matt Johnson, Moonbug is both a photographic road trip and an exploration of how photographs become signposts for history. Moonbug

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