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Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War
Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War
This is the story of the feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand up to him from the day John Kennedy was elected President until Bobby was assassinated.
Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War 1987
Vivat, Naval Cadets!
Vivat, Naval Cadets!
In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.
Vivat, Naval Cadets! 1991
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État 2024
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history.
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King 2003
Fly High, Run Far
Fly High, Run Far
In mid-19th Century Korea, the people of Joseon Dynasty embrace the new religion Donghak. After the founder is executed, Choi Si-hyeong becomes Donghak’s second-generation leader and successfully propagates the religion, but in doing so becomes the object of oppression by the royal court.
Fly High, Run Far 1991
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad
A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.
The Battle of Stalingrad 1949
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People
In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled water. The plant will bring new life and hope to the village, but unexpected trouble occurs.
An Enemy of the People 2005
The Devil's Disciple
The Devil's Disciple
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
The Devil's Disciple 1959
Narušitel
Narušitel
Narušitel 2019
Hitler's Children
Hitler's Children
Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime: men and women who were left a legacy that indelibly associates them with one of the greatest abominations in history. What is it like to have grown up with a name that immediately raises images of genocide? How do they live with the weight of their ancestors' crimes? Is it possible to move on from the crimes of their ancestors?
Hitler's Children 2012
Frontline: The Tank Man
Frontline: The Tank Man
On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. FRONTLINE investigates the mystery of the tank man — his identity, his fate, and his significance for the Chinese leadership.
Frontline: The Tank Man 2006
The Parachute
The Parachute
As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
The Parachute 1968
Evita Peron
Evita Peron
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Evita Peron 1981
Nech sa niekto opováži alebo Ako Ďuro Konôpka o fujaru prišiel
Nech sa niekto opováži alebo Ako Ďuro Konôpka o fujaru prišiel
Nech sa niekto opováži alebo Ako Ďuro Konôpka o fujaru prišiel 1982
Chrisye
Chrisye
In this biopic, Christian Rahadi – aka Chrisye – overcomes early failures, family strife and anxiety to become one of Indonesia's legendary musicians.
Chrisye 2017
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture
Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments.
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture 2006
Northern Crusades
Northern Crusades
Historical epic about the uprising of the Prussians agains the Teutonic crusaders.
Northern Crusades 1972
At the Beginning of Glorious Days
At the Beginning of Glorious Days
Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter’s ukases provoke the Boyars’ indignation. Europe looks in amazement: the Russian tsar begins to work at a Dutch shipyard learning the subtleties of shipbuilding?! But his training is cut short. Peter has to return to Russia in order to brutally suppress the Streltsy rebellion organized by his sister Sophia.
At the Beginning of Glorious Days 1980
Indigo
Indigo
Indigo, a stuttering college student, finds a magic cubicle that transports him back in time. Upon abusing this power to improve his speech condition, Indigo gets lost in time and experiences the history of student activism in the university from the 2000s to the 1970s in the Philippines.
Indigo 2023
Tenko Reunion
Tenko Reunion
In 1950, five years after their release from internment, the women return to Singapore for a reunion, unaware of the intrigue that is to involve them in treachery and murder.
Tenko Reunion 1985
Wait for the Signal from the Sea
Wait for the Signal from the Sea
The film is about commissary Chingiz Ildirim.
Wait for the Signal from the Sea 1986
Hill of No Return
Hill of No Return
In 1920s Taiwan, Jou, a controversial woman with a tragic past, seeks to change her life after falling for a man named Che. Meanwhile, a man named Wei seeks to buy the freedom of Fumiko, a dying young woman.
Hill of No Return 1992
The Busing Battleground
The Busing Battleground
The Busing Battleground pulls back the curtain on the volatile effort to end school segregation, detailing the decades-long struggle for educational equity that preceded the crisis. It illustrates how civil rights battles had to be fought across the North as well as the South and reckons with the class dimensions of the desegregation saga, exploring how the neighborhoods most impacted by the court’s order were the poorest in the city.
The Busing Battleground 2023
Demirkırat: Chief
Demirkırat: Chief
The multi-party democratic regime that we take for granted in Turkey today is actually the product of 23 years of struggle and search. From the establishment of the Republic until 1946, three attempts were made to transition from a single party to a multi-party. The first of these was in 1924. Progressive Republican Party came up against the Republican People's Party that ruled the country. However, this period, when a new republic was built in pain, did not allow an oppositional voice to survive. The Progressive Party was closed after six months. Some of the rulers were imprisoned. Some of them were sentenced on death rows in the case of the assassination of Atatürk.The second attempt was made six months later, in 1930, with the Free Party. But the Free Party survived only 97 days.Finally, after another 16 years, the Democrat Party came in 1946 and the one-party regime became history for Turkey, never to return.
Demirkırat: Chief 1991
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Behind the scenes of Aaron Spelling's nighttime soap opera.
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure 2005
Parnell
Parnell
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Parnell 1937
25 October, the First Day
25 October, the First Day
A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the revolutionary period.
25 October, the First Day 1968
Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...
Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard 1993
Slaves and Kings
Slaves and Kings
The compelling story of Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a Spanish Roman Catholic Archbishop, writer and publisher, missionary, and confessor to Queen Isabella II of Spain. Declared a saint in 1950, Claret is the founder of the religious congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, known as the Claretians.
Slaves and Kings 2022
Habibie & Ainun 3
Habibie & Ainun 3
When she was in high school, Ainun was known as a smart girl and became the target of many male students, including Habibie. In college, Ainun became a popular figure. Ahmad is a man who dared to express his love for Ainun.
Habibie & Ainun 3 2019
La double vie, petite histoire de la sexualité en URSS
La double vie, petite histoire de la sexualité en URSS
La double vie, petite histoire de la sexualité en URSS 2020
A Day Longer Than a Year
A Day Longer Than a Year
The film tells of devastating earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969 and follows a group of prisoners in prison during devastating earthquake and people and residents of Banja Luka. Fate of prisoners,the fate of the city and residents of Banja Luka, are light motive of this movie.
A Day Longer Than a Year 1971
Days of '36
Days of '36
The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing in the government into disarray.
Days of '36 1972
Franz
Franz
The life of Franz Kafka in a series of independent chapters: from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his final years in Berlin and death in 1924, and his imagined future.
Franz 1
Shafiqa and Metwally
Shafiqa and Metwally
The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their sinful relationship is revealed, she is forced to leave for Asyut, where she becomes the mistress of Al Tarabishi, the supplier of slaves.
Shafiqa and Metwally 1978
The Suram Fortress
The Suram Fortress
The legend of the Suram Fortress.
The Suram Fortress 1922
Maiko and the Assassin
Maiko and the Assassin
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.
Maiko and the Assassin 1963
Hiralal
Hiralal
The Bengali-language biopic looks back on Hiralal Sen, who is credited with making India’s first advertising film and political documentary.
Hiralal 2021
Story of the Golden Boot
Story of the Golden Boot
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
Story of the Golden Boot 1961
Metropolitan Andrey
Metropolitan Andrey
Story about Metropolitan of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrey Sheptytsky who opposed repressive totalitarian regimes of Stalin and Hitler and chose the path of service to God and people.
Metropolitan Andrey 2008