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Sahel: A French War
Sahel: A French War
The history of the Sahel region in West Africa is that of an explosive chain of countless misfortunes: drought and soil degradation, maximum insecurity and violence, Tuareg independence uprisings, drug smuggling, institutional corruption and jihadism; but also that of a civil society in constant demographic growth that is waking up and trying to change things.
Sahel: A French War 2022
Mária Kerényi, 41, July 1970
Mária Kerényi, 41, July 1970
In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her in slow motion. Upon her arrest, diplomat Mária Kerényi is interviewed by the state television. Her story in espionage confronts the mechanisms of autocracy and the concept of guilt in a closed society.
Mária Kerényi, 41, July 1970 2023
R
R
In Los Angeles in 1965, unfulfilled B-list director Gordon Flemyng (Brad Pollak) receives the screenplay of a lifetime from his old friend Robert Sabaroff (Mark Baker), who is insistent they make a film that promises to entertain like no other. With football legend, turned actor, Jim Brown (J'amore Ward) attached to the picture, it seems the sky's the limit for these two filmmakers. Desperate to finally receive the recognition he's longed for, Gordon struggles to find the balance between passion and stardom. However, when Gordon pushes the MPAA rating guidelines of traditional cinema, he finds himself in a rabbit hole he's unsure he can escape from when his movie receives the first ever R-rating.
R 2023
1988
1988
In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.
1988 2023
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
Tracing the evolution of the war-film genre from 1898 to 1996 by combining real-life combat footage with excerpts from Hollywood movies. Clips range from "Wings" (1927) to "Courage Under Fire" (1996). Also: Thomas Edison's shots of American soldiers in the Spanish-American War. Narrated by Martin Sheen.
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War 1998
Little Old New York
Little Old New York
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Little Old New York 1940
Dolce
Dolce
A documentary portrait of Miho Shimao, widow of renowned Japanese writer Toshio Shimao.
Dolce 2000
Ganga Zumba
Ganga Zumba
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
Ganga Zumba 1963
Dzhura
Dzhura
The end of the 1920s — the beginning of the 1930s in Kyrgyzstan. Parts of the Red Army are waging an uncompromising struggle with basmachi in Central Asia. The film tells about the formation of the character of the young Kyrgyz hunter Djura, who found himself in a swirling whirlpool of revolutionary events that swept the Pamirs. It shows the hard way from a simple young hunter, entangled in centuries of prejudice, to a conscious, seasoned in many battles with the Basmachi mature fighter, who believed in the great ideas of the revolution.
Dzhura 1964
Down in Dallas Town
Down in Dallas Town
Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s, the film explores the impact of the November 22, 1963 assassination on issues in today’s world, from lingering conspiracy theories to the proliferation of gun violence, homelessness, and the scourge of K-2.
Down in Dallas Town 2023
What Shall I Do With This Sword?
What Shall I Do With This Sword?
By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
What Shall I Do With This Sword? 1975
Secrets of Hitler's Island Fortress: The Islands of Guernsey
Secrets of Hitler's Island Fortress: The Islands of Guernsey
Guernsey and its neighboring islands have a unique distinction which sets them apart from the rest of the British Isles. Together with the rest of the Channel Islands, they were the only part of the British Isles to fall to Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In this documentary, Dan Snow learns about the unique wartime experience of these islands and the people who lived on them. From a daring commando raid on Sark to an extraordinary reconnoiter of untouched World War Two archaeology submerged in an Alderney quarry, join Snow as he explores the wartime history - above the ground and under the water.
Secrets of Hitler's Island Fortress: The Islands of Guernsey 2019
From Dubrovnik to Goa
From Dubrovnik to Goa
A fascinating story about Festivity of Saint Blaise, the patron of Dubrovnik, which is also celebrated in Goa, India.
From Dubrovnik to Goa 2022
Teddy the Rough Rider
Teddy the Rough Rider
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
Teddy the Rough Rider 1940
Mountain Fire Personnel
Mountain Fire Personnel
Mountain Fire Personnel is an experimental documentary that explores a wild fire near an evacuated mountain tramway in Southern California. Using amateur footage, internet media and professional camerawork, the film surveys an area occupied by firemen and California State prisoners.
Mountain Fire Personnel 2015
Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom
Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom
A Black American is troubled by the legacy of American slavery and the misuse of Christianity to justify it. He travels throughout Texas discovering how the Juneteenth reveals faith and a fight for freedom in an unjust society.
Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom 2022
The Crisis of Civilization
The Crisis of Civilization
The Crisis Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system. Proving that 'another world' is not merely possible, but on its way.
The Crisis of Civilization 2011
The Godfather Effect
The Godfather Effect
Famous director Francis Ford Coppola is interviewed about The Godfather’s affect on the American frontier of filmmaking.
The Godfather Effect 2023
Happy Gypsies
Happy Gypsies
Rome, 1977. Small town boy Tano joins the far left movement in Rome where he finds an old love and a new friend. His life takes an odd turn when he finds a bold new world, magical and surreal, that's only one door away.
Happy Gypsies 2022
A Month With the Girls
A Month With the Girls
The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a chambermaid, a lesbian bar dancer and more, she wrote a very successful and scandalous book about that avant-garde experience, and changed her mind about this world and these women's difficult condition.
A Month With the Girls 2024
Hitler and the Children of Obersalzberg
Hitler and the Children of Obersalzberg
The Obersalzberg retreat was the summer residence and retreat of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and his closest confidants in the Nazi regime. The public are mainly familiar with fi lm footage and photographs from the alleged Nazi idyll. For the first time, eye witnesses are willing to talk about their experiences in Obersalzberg.
Hitler and the Children of Obersalzberg 2017
Les Lycéens, le Traître et les Nazis
Les Lycéens, le Traître et les Nazis
Les Lycéens, le Traître et les Nazis 2019
The Hitler Gang
The Hitler Gang
This movie shows us the rise of Adolf Hitler from a small radical political adventurer to the dictator of Germany in the way of a gangster film. Exept for some minor inaccuracies the historical facts are given in a correct way.
The Hitler Gang 1944
Bulgar Sadık
Bulgar Sadık
Bulgar Sadık 1954
La Honte noire : chroniques de l'occupation de la Rhénanie
La Honte noire : chroniques de l'occupation de la Rhénanie
La Honte noire : chroniques de l'occupation de la Rhénanie 2020
The Trinity Desk Project
The Trinity Desk Project
After escaping from her world, Maya Arnoldson attempts to find the truth about the invisible objects, living monuments, and the fate of Leonard Morlin. An edited and remastered compilation of the AMERICANANATOMY and TRINITYDESKPROJECT web series, and special episode of The Monument Mythos.
The Trinity Desk Project 2024
Otevřený kruh
Otevřený kruh
Otevřený kruh 1973
Mladé letá
Mladé letá
Mladé letá 1962
The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko
The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko
The wizard Finn sends Masha and Vanya on a journey through the fairy tale films of Aleksandr Ptushko, many dangers await them there.
The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko 1988
Una cosa in mente. Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
Una cosa in mente. Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
Biographical film about Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo (1786-1842)
Una cosa in mente. Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo 2004
Castle Ghosts of Scotland
Castle Ghosts of Scotland
As is generally known, ghosts mostly dwell in the ancient gloomy locks built five-six centuries back. In similar places during centuries there are quite a bit bloody dramas. Scotland is famous such locks.
Castle Ghosts of Scotland 1996
The Swedish Connection
The Swedish Connection
A Swedish blockbuster that takes place during the Second World War. The true story of one of the unsung heroes of the war who saved thousands of lives”. We will meet Gösta Engzell, a bureaucrat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was told that something terrible happened to the Jews and came up with a perfect plan to deceive the Nazis.
The Swedish Connection 1
General Orders No. 9
General Orders No. 9
One last trip down the rabbit hole before it gets paved over. A deep geography. What is above and what is below. What came before and what will come after. Agrarian fantasies, sacrificial rites, and excavations. A story told with maps, dreams, and prayers. A map lesson in three parts. A history of the State of Georgia - or Anywhere.
General Orders No. 9 2011
Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?
Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?
The young years of Michel Drucker.
Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi? 2012
Ein deutsches Attentat
Ein deutsches Attentat
Ein deutsches Attentat 1975
Paris : Les Lieux secrets de l'occupation
Paris : Les Lieux secrets de l'occupation
Paris : Les Lieux secrets de l'occupation 2017
Sibelius
Sibelius
Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland.
Sibelius 2003
Gentlemen Officers: Save the Emperor
Gentlemen Officers: Save the Emperor
During the Civil War in Russia a group of White Guard officers is trying to rescue the family of the tsar Nicholas II captured by Bolsheviks. The officers face betrayal and fight a Red Army detachment sent to eliminate them. It is the Red Army commander against the head of the White Guard group. The only thing that matters is who will be the first to reach the tsar placed under arrest in Yekaterinburg...
Gentlemen Officers: Save the Emperor 2008
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Tsukigata Hanpeita
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu clan, who, along with Katsuro Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma, sought to fulfill the dream of a new peaceful era in Japan. Can he realize his ideals or will he die in the chaos of internecine fights...
Tsukigata Hanpeita 1956
Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender 1