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Les diamants de la victoire
Les diamants de la victoire
Les diamants de la victoire 2010
Lenin in October
Lenin in October
Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.
Lenin in October 1937
Black Box Syria: The Dirty War
Black Box Syria: The Dirty War
A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions in presence and those of the foreign powers.
Black Box Syria: The Dirty War 2020
The Disciple
The Disciple
From a non-mythical perspective, The Disciple presents with high production value, the life of Jesus from a daring new angle, a human, without divinity, fallible and worrying disciple of God and the People on very real ground.
The Disciple 2010
Secret Nation
Secret Nation
A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
Secret Nation 1992
The Witch
The Witch
In the Ukrainian village of Konotop, the chief Centurion wants to marry a beautiful girl and asks for the help of a young witch.
The Witch 1990
The Ascent of Money
The Ascent of Money
British historian and author Niall Ferguson explains how big money works today as well as the causes of and solutions to economic catastrophes in this extended version The Ascent of Money documentary. Through interviews with top experts, such as former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and American currency speculator George Soros, the intricate world of finance, including global commerce, banking and lending, is examined thoroughly.
The Ascent of Money 2008
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Planned adaptation of Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff.
Cleopatra 1
Gemmeker
Gemmeker
In 1948, Albert Gemmeker, the former commander of the Dutch concentration camp Westerbork, finds himself in an interrogation room opposite a man unknown to him. It soon turns out that Gemmeker's interrogator has a personal reason to force him to confess about his war past and the transportation of 80.000 Jews to the extermination camps.
Gemmeker 2020
The Long Way Home
Prime Video
The Long Way Home
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
The Long Way Home 1997
百团大战
百团大战
百团大战 2015
The Devil Who Limped
The Devil Who Limped
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
The Devil Who Limped 1948
Kästner and Little Tuesday
Kästner and Little Tuesday
Germany, 1931. The youth novel "Emil and the Detectives" is being filmed, which will make its author, Erich Kästner, world famous. An unusual friendship begins between the childless author and fatherless Hans, the 9-year-old playing the character Little Tuesday. Their friendship is put to the ultimate test in the Third Reich when Kästner's books are banned and little Hans becomes a Hitler Youth. Based on a true story.
Kästner and Little Tuesday 2016
Versailles: The Dream of a King
Versailles: The Dream of a King
Docudrama about the life of Louis XIV nicknamed "the Sun King", the King of France who ran a glamorous court, expanded the borders of France, loved women and parties and built an incredible palace for himself - the Versailles.
Versailles: The Dream of a King 2008
El joven Berlanga
El joven Berlanga
The early days of the future genius of Spanish cinema Luis García Berlanga, from his birth in Valencia in 1921 to his departure to Madrid in 1947 to become a filmmaker.
El joven Berlanga 2022
Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins
Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins
In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Kiryath-Jearim (or Kiryat Ya’arim), converted to the site of a Catholic convent, where, according to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was kept for at least twenty years before being brought to Jerusalem by King David, father of King Solomon, who would eventually build the Holy of Holies inside the First Temple to house it.
Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins 2021
The Money Masters
The Money Masters
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money.
The Money Masters 1996
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe 2019
Man of Conquest
Man of Conquest
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Man of Conquest 1939
Stratford Festival: King John
Stratford Festival: King John
When the King of France (Peter Hutt) demands that John (Tom McCamus) relinquish his crown in favor of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur, war is the inevitable result. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion and assassination all contribute to a political turmoil and personal grief for a mother who has lost her son.
Stratford Festival: King John 2015
The Day That Shook the World
The Day That Shook the World
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.
The Day That Shook the World 1977
Identity Card
Identity Card
Bittersweet comedy about four teenage boys, their friends, parents, lovers - from the moment when they are 15 to moment when they are 18. Story is set in 1970s, when is Czechoslovakia occupied by Russians.
Identity Card 2010
The Moon
The Moon
Born to impoverished farmers, Pumpuang Duangjan faces setbacks, heartbreak and tragedy on the road to becoming one of Thailand's most cherished singers.
The Moon 2011
Festival Express
Festival Express
The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts. In the summer of 1970, a chartered train crossed Canada carrying some of the world's greatest rock bands. The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, and others lived (and partied) together for five days, stopping in major cities along the way to play live concerts. Their journey was filmed.
Festival Express 2003
Celebration at Big Sur
Celebration at Big Sur
Star-studded show recorded at the Big Sur Folk Festival, Big Sur, California, September 13th and 14th, 1969. Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian, and others. This film captures a remarkable moment in folk, rock, and pop history - the famous folk festival that brought traditional acts like Dorothy Morrison & The Combs Sisters and Carol Ann Cisneros together with the psychedelic rockers of the day who were most deeply rooted in the folk revival. Older songs like ‘Oh Happy Day,’ ‘Rise And Shine,’ ‘All God’s Children,’ and ‘Swing Down, Sweet Chariot’ meet Joni Mitchell’s ‘Woodstock,’ Joan Baez’s ‘Sweet Sir Galahad,’ ‘Bob Dylan’s ‘I Shall Be Released,’ CSNY’s ‘Down By The River,’ and many more of the now-classic songs of what was then called the ‘new rock.’ The scene is notably intimate and - aside from one fan’s dustup with Stephen Stills - mellow, with many rare, close-up moments with the stars.
Celebration at Big Sur 1971
Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island
Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island
During the last desperate months of World War II, an Allied mission to regain Ramree Island off the coast of Burma ends in horror when an embattled group of soldiers find themselves trapped in dense swampland infested with deadly saltwater crocodiles. As the men are picked off one by one by the hungry reptiles, those that remain resort to increasingly desperate measures to survive the onslaught of carnage and get off the island alive.
Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island 2021
Tokyo Bath Harem
Tokyo Bath Harem
A public bath house is the scene of illegal female slave trading operations in 18th century Japan and government spy Shinzo is sent in to expose the ringleaders as well as working to get a law passed eliminating coed bathing.
Tokyo Bath Harem 1968
Arkhé
Arkhé
“Archeology” and “Archive” share the same roots. Both words come from “Arkhé”, the Greek word for “origin”. In the ruins of buildings, lost forever by earthquakes, as in the depth of the archives, we dig. What happened the morning of the big earthquake? The morning of September 19th 1985 is fading away in our memories. These recordings have never been seen. Unedited images of the catastrophe dug out by the archaeological adventure of an archivist that suffered with them. He dug and suffered until he could no longer see.
Arkhé 2023
Jacob's Trouble
Jacob's Trouble
One of the most famous Bible stories of all time retold against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the New World, the birth of the slave trade, and the rise of piracy in the Caribbean between 1565-1575.
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Walter's War
Prime Video
Walter's War
Drama inspired by the life of Walter Tull who, after years in an orphanage, went on to become a professional footballer and then the first black commissioned officer to lead British troops during WW1. The action concerns Tull's turbulent passage from ordinary soldier to extraordinary officer at officer training camp, where he had to face his own demons as well as fight the prejudice that surrounded him
Walter's War 2008
Bombshells and Dollies
Bombshells and Dollies
Female Empowerment Documentary on the Contemporary Pinup Lifestyle & The Miss Viva Las Vegas Pinup Contest - 'Celebrating every woman's right to total body acceptance, to be self-confident and to be gorgeous!'
Bombshells and Dollies 2020
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Prime Video
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes 1990
Sinergia
Sinergia
It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at different times. One of the people belongs to that era of the archives, who now lives in a future where the city no longer exists. And the other, a person who has never heard of this city where his family is from.
Sinergia 2024
Kalter Krieg in Bewegung: Europa 1952/53
Kalter Krieg in Bewegung: Europa 1952/53
In the early 1950s, European construction was in its infancy, while the Cold War intensified. A return to the archives over two crucial years, nourished by testimonies "from the inside".
Kalter Krieg in Bewegung: Europa 1952/53 2023
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nuremberg trial —formally, the International Military Tribunal— built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the films and records produced by the own regime, obsessed with documenting everything in its long path of infamy and crime.
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today 1948
Leni
Leni
A historical drama about a Jewish child who is adopted by a German couple and is eventually removed from the home.
Leni 1994
Beaver Wars Episode I Attack of the Gaggle
Beaver Wars Episode I Attack of the Gaggle
The prequel to the amazing work of art... Beaver Wars Episode IV
Beaver Wars Episode I Attack of the Gaggle 2023
Lucy Worsley's Christmas Carol Odyssey
Lucy Worsley's Christmas Carol Odyssey
Lucy Worsley reveals the surprising stories behind our favourite Christmas carols. From pagan rituals to religious conflicts, French dances and the First World War, carols reflect our history.
Lucy Worsley's Christmas Carol Odyssey 2019
Knight Without Armour
Knight Without Armour
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Knight Without Armour 1937
Prem Kahani
Prem Kahani
Rajesh lives a delightful life as an apolitical poet in his college days, with his love Kamini and his best friend Dheeraj, a policeman. But when his brother is killed by the British Colonial Army, he abandons everything and becomes a revolutionary freedom fighter. Time passes and he becomes a symbol of the resistance with a bounty on his head. When unfortunate circumstances force an injured Rajesh into hiding, he finds himself taking refuge at Dheeraj's quarters and encounters his past when he meets Kamini again, as the wife of his best friend, while the British become more and more eager to crush all anti-colonial sentiments in India.
Prem Kahani 1975