"Favorite" playlist

Cold Mountain (2003)

Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the hom...

The Patriot (2000)

It is 1776 in colonial South Carolina. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, now wants nothing more then to live peacefully on h...

The Physician (2013)

In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.

Casualties of War (1989)

During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is kill...

We Were Soldiers (2002)

A lieutenant colonel (Mel Gibson) and approximately 400 U.S. troops battle 2,000 North Vietnamese in 1965.

To Hell and Back (1955)

True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger sibl...

Jarhead (2005)

Jarhead follows a young Marine nicknamed "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal) on his tour of duty in the Middle East. Lugging a sniper rifle and a hundr...

Memphis Belle (1990)

It's May 17, 1943; the day before the Memphis Belle's, a B-17 bomber, 25th and final mission. After their final mission, they crew of ten men get to go home. S...

Rob Roy (1995)

A rousing film version of Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romantic adventure based on the life of Scottish hero Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) who battled a des...

The 33 (2015)

Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.

Non-Stop (2014)

An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless the air...

Battle of Britain (1969)

Historical reenactment of the air war in the early days of World War Two for control of the skies over Britain as the new Luftwaffa and the Royal Air Force det...

Unknown (2011)

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young ...

Widows (2018)

Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, ta...

Danger Close (2019)

South Vietnam, late afternoon on August 18, 1966 - for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation call...

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway has been in the Corps since the Korean War and would like to see some action and a victory before he retires. He requests to...

Battle of the Bulge (1965)

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offens...

Green Zone (2010)

In 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his team of inspectors are on a mission to find Iraq's reported stockpiles of weapons of mass destruc...

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

The story of USSR's first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. ...

Joanna Lumley's Japan (2016)

The British actress goes on a 2,000 mile journey across the four main islands of Japan, travelling from North to South meeting local people and absorbing the cu...

The West (1996)

Stephen Ives' "The West" is a PBS 4-Video Series co-produced by Ken Burns: - "Death Runs Riot" 85 min. - "Fight No More Forever" 85 min. - "Ghost Dance" 58 min....

Everest Rescue (2017)

EVEREST RESCUE journeys to the tops of the treacherous Everest Himalayan Mountains, highlighting the work of a rare breed of pilots who put their lives on the l...

Everest: Beyond the Limit (2006)

Walking the Nile (2015)

Documentary about Ex-soldier and explorer Levison Wood who embarks on a quest to walk the entire length of the River Nile.

Tribal Wives (2008)

The BBC has sent six British women to be “second wives” to so-called “tribesmen” in - according to the BBC “some of the world’s most remote communities"

Inside the Factory (2015)

How our favorite foods and products are made? Cherry Healey and Gregg Wallace go into the factories to figure out, while Ruth Goodman tell us about the historic...

Hell on Wheels (2011)

Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of a band of Union soldiers, the killers of his wife. This brings him to the middle of one ...

Gangland Undercover (2015)

A gritty fact based drama series that tells the astonishing story of a drug dealer who was arrested then given a desperate ultimatum: serve over 20 years in jai...

Coal (2011)

A docuseries chronicling the dangerous profession of coal mining, set in West Virginia.

Seconds From Disaster (2004)

Accounts of famous technological disasters and their subsequent investigations.

Live PD (2016)

A live look inside the everyday calls of police officers across the nation.

Mobsters (2007)

Crimes That Shook Britain (2008)

Crimes That Shook Britain: ‘Crimes That Shook Britain’ investigates some of the country’s most horrendous murders depicted through the eyes of people at the cor...

Weird Nature (2002)

Weird Nature: This BBC/DISCOVERY series reveals some of the strangest behaviour in the animal world. In a series of action-packed sequences, tyres fall from a t...

Meerkat Manor (2005)

This is a documentary drama series which follows a meerkat family in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, called the Whiskers.

Dead End Express (2015)

Meet a unique breed of men who risk their lives hauling vital supplies to people living off the grid and on the edge of the world.

All Creatures Great and Small (2020)

The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire. A remake of the 1978-1990 series. Taken from the aut...

The First 48 (2004)

The series follows detectives during the hours immediately following a homicide.

The Last Kingdom (2015)

The Last Kingdom is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories. The books follow Uhtred of Bebbanburg from a boy taken from his birthright and raised by ...