R. H. Thomson

Touching, passionate, and provocative, this documentary follows the riveting journey of a group of pre-adolescent soccer players-half of them Palestinian, half of them Israeli-who come together to play on an all-star team in the world's largest international youth soccer tournament. Behind the concept of the team is the powerful force of Johann Olav Koss, one of the greatest winter Olympians ever and the founder of Right to Play, a children's charity...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge.
 
“A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable...

"How can you make peace when what you really want is revenge? In the wake of 37 million casualties at the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson took his dream of a League of Nations to Paris to seek "peace everlasting," joining over 30 international delegations who descended upon the city fo the most ambitious peace talks in history. Helmed by the Big Four (the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy), the Paris Peace Conference ultimately...

The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890's, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly spinster and her aging brother. Over time, thirteen-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.

"Uncloaks the mystery of Joseph Boulogne Le Chevalier de Saint Georges, a black musician from the 18th century whose work has fallen into neglect due to the prejudices of history. Revives the story of Saint-George's life as an ardent lover, a renowned athlete, a revolutionary, but above all, as an extraordinary composer and performer."--Container.

A German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis and was executed by the Nazis days before the end of WWII.

"Twelve-year-old Michelle Marin doesn't like her piano teacher. Monsieur Bizet is irritable, forgetful, aloof-- distracted by a failing marriage and the rigors of composing his new opera. But as the composer begins to tell Michelle the story of the gypsy, Carmen, her imagination is captured. For, just as in Bizet's opera, her soldier father is stationed in Seville ... and she fears he will never return. Set in Paris, in 1875, the video is the story...