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The Midwife
The Midwife
In 1943 Stanislawa Leszczynska was arrested by gestapo as a result of helping Lodz ghetto prisoners and sent down to concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau together with her three children. There she went through the dreadful trial. Stanislawa worked as a midwife facing inhuman conditions, on the edge of exhaustion, she delivered 3000 labors not loosing any child - Her name - as one of four outstanding Polish women of the last century - was placed on Life and Changing the Nation Goblet sacrificed by Polish women in Jasna Gora Monastery. What was the secret of this extraordinary woman? Where did her strength came from? Why even facing death she has never lost faith in what she was doing?
The Midwife 2020
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Emiliano Zapata 1970
The Oath
The Oath
An impressing war drama, a story of life and heroism of Naum Balapan - an academic psychiatrist, Doctor of Medicine, a chief doctor of the Sevastopol psychiatric hospital since 1922. With the help of his wife he saved dozens of innocent people from Genocide during Nazi Occupation until his tragic death in 1942.
The Oath 2020
Amazones, femmes guerrières de l'Antiquité
Amazones, femmes guerrières de l'Antiquité
Amazones, femmes guerrières de l'Antiquité 2024
Metro
Metro
A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s.
Metro 1950
Beethoven privat
Beethoven privat
Beethoven privat 2020
The General
The General
Movie follows life of Croatian war hero general Ante Gotovina.
The General 2019
Bitka o van Gogha
Bitka o van Gogha
Bitka o van Gogha 1979
Nobody Wanted to Die
Nobody Wanted to Die
The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.
Nobody Wanted to Die 1965
Borderline Forever
Borderline Forever
Scott discovers shapes exist
Borderline Forever 2021
Above All Else
Above All Else
The life of a great 19th century Russian composer and conductor of choral music.
Above All Else 1988
Vestiges de guerre : les chars disparus du D-Day
Vestiges de guerre : les chars disparus du D-Day
Vestiges de guerre : les chars disparus du D-Day 2019
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Edition spéciale : "Mission Alpha"
Edition spéciale : "Mission Alpha" 2021
The Trios of the Peach Garden
The Trios of the Peach Garden
A film based on the Oath of the Peach Garden which is a fictional event in the 14th-century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.
The Trios of the Peach Garden 1968
Flight Over the Atlantic
Flight Over the Atlantic
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.
Flight Over the Atlantic 1984
Dear Jackie
Dear Jackie
Dear Jackie is a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball, after a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, and a key contributor to the civil rights movement in the United States. The film addresses Robinson directly and recounts the current situation of the Black community in Little Burgundy, once known as the “Harlem of the North,” drawing interesting parallels between the two eras. Through eloquent interviews, the filmmaker paints a portrait of racism and racial inequality in Montreal and Quebec as a whole. Presenting a unique historical and social perspective, Henri Pardo has made an important film that deconstructs the myth of a post-racial Quebec society.
Dear Jackie 2021
Last Hours of Pompeii
Last Hours of Pompeii
Last Hours of Pompeii 2020
Balzac
Balzac
Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It is a biopic on the work, life, and loves of the French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac, his evolution as a writer and how his individual works fit into the design of La Comedie Humaine. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 and won first prize for best director at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival the same year.
Balzac 1951
Villeneuve: L'ascension d'un champion
Villeneuve: L'ascension d'un champion
Villeneuve: L'ascension d'un champion 1
Sudca vo vlastnej pasci
Sudca vo vlastnej pasci
Sudca vo vlastnej pasci 1987
A Dream of Red Mansions
A Dream of Red Mansions
A musical adaptation of 'Dream of the Red Chamber'
A Dream of Red Mansions 1962
Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices
Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices
A small-town California boy planned to be a minister like his father, but instead became the greatest conductor of choral music the world has ever known. With no formal musical training, he moved from stunning early success in popular music to legendary interpretations of classical music's great choral masterpieces.
Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices 2016
May It Fill Your Soul
May It Fill Your Soul
May It Fill Your Soul is a film about Bulgarian traditional music, about the pain of emigration and the promise of immigration, and about a family with a century-long musical history. Bulgaria's astonishingly rich village music traditions include strong women's singing, musical instruments with roots its millennia-old pastoral lifestyle and its 500-year history in the Ottoman Empire, and its lively dancing in additive meters of 5, 7, 9, and 11 beats to the measure. These practices are presented through the lens of a musical family trained during Bulgaria's communist regime (1944-1989) to represent the best that Bulgaria had to offer the world, but who made the wrenching decision in the post-communist period to immigrate to the United States for the sake of their daughters' futures. From that vantage point they have been able to teach their art to, and "fill the souls" of, singers, dancers, musicians, and audiences all over the world.
May It Fill Your Soul 2016
Bezerra de Menezes: O Diário de um Espírito
Bezerra de Menezes: O Diário de um Espírito
The film follows the life of the doctor Menezes (Carlos Vereza), known as the doctor of the poor.
Bezerra de Menezes: O Diário de um Espírito 2008
World War Two: A Timewatch Guide
World War Two: A Timewatch Guide
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, by chronicling how the story of the battle has changed. As new information has come to light, and forgotten stories are remembered, the history of World War Two evolves. The BBC has followed that evolution, and this programme examines the most important stories, and how our understanding of them has been re-defined since the war ended over 70 years ago.
World War Two: A Timewatch Guide 2016
Burma Soldier
Burma Soldier
The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist.
Burma Soldier 2010
There was no hope. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 19th April 1943
There was no hope. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 19th April 1943
There was no hope. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 19th April 1943 2016
Os Arcanos da Loucura
Os Arcanos da Loucura
Os Arcanos da Loucura 2020
Witchfinder
Witchfinder
A fictionalized study of real-life witch hunter Matthew Hopkins and the heinous crimes he committed during the English Civil War in 1645.
Witchfinder 1
24 h D-Day
24 h D-Day
D-Day marks the starting point for the liberation of Western Europe from the grip of the Nazi yoke. On June 6th, 1944, Allied soldiers attack German positions at no less than five sectors of the beach in Normandy. The assault takes place from the sea and is considered the largest amphibious landing operation in history. This event now sees its 80th anniversary. But so close, so authentic, this battle has never been shown before. American and British cameramen are at the scene in landing boats, under fire at the beaches, and during the rescue of wounded soldiers. Their original footage, shoot in black-and-white, was extensively restored and colourized for this documentary. The historically unique footage appear in motion picture quality. The war gets colour. And thereby a different impact. We look directly in the faces of those, Americans, Canadians, Britons, and Germans, who are often not older than 20. In “24h D-Day”, they tell about their D-Day, the day they never can forget.
24 h D-Day 2024
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom 1950
Anime nere: Goering y Goebbels
Anime nere: Goering y Goebbels
Hitler was undoubtedly the cruelest figure of Nazism, but not the only one. This documentary reconstructs the stories of crimes committed by Paul Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Wilhem Goering, up to the Nuremberg war crimes trial that took place between 1945 and 1946.
Anime nere: Goering y Goebbels 2017
2/11 Het spel van de wolf
2/11 Het spel van de wolf
2 November 2004, shortly before nine in the morning. In The Hague, the report comes in that in Amsterdam Theo van Gogh has been murdered. All warning bells start ringing. With the country in flames, sometimes literally, politicians and officials in The Hague have to neutralise all sorts of known and unknown stings, and just when Van Gogh’s cremation seems to herald a period of relative peace, a second explosion follows: the attack on the Hofstad Network in the Laakkwartier in The Hague. A reconstruction of nine days of political high tension and flying dust, a decade after the assassination of the trendsetting filmmaker and TV presenter.
2/11 Het spel van de wolf 2014
Born Out of The Ashes
Born Out of The Ashes
Uzbek historical epic about Mongol tyranny in Uzbekistan.
Born Out of The Ashes 2019
The Real Doctor Zhivago
The Real Doctor Zhivago
Dr. Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fear, set against a backdrop of revolution and violence. The film is what most people remember, but the story of the writing of the book has more twists, intrigue and bravery than many a Hollywood blockbuster. In this documentary, Stephen Smith traces the revolutionary beginnings of this bestseller, to it becoming a pawn of the CIA at the height of the Cold War.
The Real Doctor Zhivago 2017
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar 2018
Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein
Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein
A look at Jeffrey Epstein's life and background, including details about how he made his money; his relationships with many notable individuals; his decades of alleged sexual abuse; and the federal sex trafficking charges he faced before he died.
Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein 2020
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge 2015
Queen Mary: How She Saved the Royals
Queen Mary: How She Saved the Royals
Documentary about Elizabeth II's grandmother, who as Queen Consort was George V's most trusted adviser and became a symbol of national stability, particularly during the crisis that ensued when her eldest son Edward VIII abdicated.
Queen Mary: How She Saved the Royals 2020
The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion
The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion
In 2017, a routine archaeological dig is taking place on the site of a proposed housing development in the village of Fenstanton in the Cambridgeshire Fens. When human remains are found alongside a variety of Roman artefacts, none of the team at Albion Archaeology see anything out of the ordinary. But once the bones are washed back at HQ, something highly unusual is uncovered: a nail through the heelbone of one of the individuals. Could this be evidence of a Roman crucifixion? When they do some research, they find that only one confirmed example has ever been unearthed before, discovered in the 1960s in Jerusalem. To find out more, they call in renowned Osteoarchaeologist Dr Corinne Duhig to investigate.
The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion 2024