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Coming For The King
Coming For The King
Coming for the King is a fictional account of the events and the people that surrounded Martin Luther King Jr. from early 1963 until his untimely demise in the Spring of 1968.
Coming For The King 2021
King Tut's Curse
King Tut's Curse
It is perhaps the most intriguing story to emerge from ancient Egypt – the mystery surrounding Tutankhamun. Why did he die so young Was he murdered Is there an explanation for the legendary curse said to follow those who found his tomb centuries later Now a team of scientists is using CT-scan technology to unveil the truth of what happened. It’s an unprecedented look into Tut’s life revealing what happened to the boy king.
King Tut's Curse 2005
Kastus Kalinovskiy
Kastus Kalinovskiy
Kastus Kalinovskiy - a feature film. Was released on August 14, 1928. The picture shows one of the heroes of the uprising of the Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish people against forced Russification and the restoration of Poland's independence in 1863.
Kastus Kalinovskiy 1928
Nuestra Señora de Coromoto
Nuestra Señora de Coromoto
Nuestra Señora de Coromoto 1996
Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy
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Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy
On the morning of December 7, 1941, a surprise attack by Japanese naval aviation against the American held island of Oahu and Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II. This story details one of the most momentous events in American history and a crucial turning point in the 20th century. Most importantly, it is a story of the people who were there, told through eyewitness accounts of American and Japanese veterans, some of whose stories have never been told. This is a story of perseverance and heroism in the face of overwhelming odds. This is the story of Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy 2004
Voices of Auschwitz
Voices of Auschwitz
For the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer looks back through the eyes of those who were imprisoned there.
Voices of Auschwitz 1
Lot 448
Lot 448
Lot 448, a new documentary premiering at this year’s virtual Tribeca Film Festival sponsored by Bulgari. Lynda Albertson, aforensic analyst who has made it her life mission to track down famous missing works of art and repatriate them to their rightful owners.
Lot 448 2021
The Station Master
The Station Master
A lonely Station Master at a remote, rural outpost encounters a woman stranded overnight at his station, and after some hesitation, invites her to spend the night in the warmth of his humble home. This unexpected encounter reawakens the Station Master's enthusiasm for life as the two talk long into the night, but in the morning, when her train arrives, will she leave along with his heart?
The Station Master 2012
The Twisted Tale Of Bloody Mary
The Twisted Tale Of Bloody Mary
She was loved, she was a princess, heir to the throne - but the childhood fairytale turned to lifelong nightmare for Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's first child. When Henry divorced her mother and married Anne Boleyn, Mary became an outcast and a threat to the Protestant succession. By a twist of fate, on the death of her brother, she became queen at last in 1553, but her attempts to make England Catholic again were a disaster for her and the country. History has called her "Bloody Mary" for the burning of the Protestants, but how fair is this? This film paints another picture, of a woman true to her beliefs, pushed towards a terrible psychological disintegration.
The Twisted Tale Of Bloody Mary 2008
Records of loyal vassals
Records of loyal vassals
In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their master Asano Takumi-no-kami. Shogun Tsunayoshi, who ruled at that time, experienced difficulties in what punishment to impose on the soldiers. As a result, it was decided to sentence them to seppuk (ritual suicide).
Records of loyal vassals 1962
Liguri Apuani
Liguri Apuani
155 BC Two young shepherds join the last battle of their people against the Roman invader.
Liguri Apuani 2021
Gold of the Empire
Gold of the Empire
Gold of the Empire 2021
Klucis. The Deconstruction of an Artist
Klucis. The Deconstruction of an Artist
Latvian artist Gustavs Klucis embraced the technological revolution of the early 20th century and applied it to his art, becoming a classic of Russian constructivism. He created photo-montage and Lenin’s public image, and became the most important Soviet artist. Killed by Stalin’s regime, his artistic career poses many unanswered questions. This documentary reveals many secrets and intimate moments of his dramatic personality – the unequal duel between the Artist and the Power.
Klucis. The Deconstruction of an Artist 2008
Kings of War
Kings of War
Kings of War merges Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into one explosive performance about leadership. In successive kings, Shakespeare sketches an image of political leaders, face to face with the ultimate responsibility for life and death in times of war. Shakespeare’s kings are political leaders who come face to face with the ultimate responsibility: they must make the life-or-death decision of whether to go to war. Shakespeare draws us into the psychology of the rulers, while also revealing the machinations of their courtiers and advisors. Kings of War lays bare the mechanisms of decision-making in times of political crisis, exposing the dichotomy between national interests and self-importance.
Kings of War 2021
Escape to Berlin
Escape to Berlin
The documentary film uncovers the story of Mašín brothers, which is of the greatest stories of the Cold War. A group of five young men decided to leave the then-communist Czechoslovakia with guns in hand to join the fighting in the then expected war between the West and the East. The year was 1953, and today, through the last witnesses, we follow the 30-day dramatic journey to West Berlin and the subsequent fateful events that happened to her loved ones at home.
Escape to Berlin 2023
A Small Town in China
A Small Town in China
Shot by Methodist missionaries, this is an incredibly charming record of small-town life in an unidentified location in China. We see a bustling wharf town with canal-side dwellings, distinctive school buildings, and a hospital where newly graduated nurses pose for a group portrait. The relaxed smiles of Chinese and Europeans are captured in intimate close-ups, suggesting a tight-knit community.
A Small Town in China 1933
Doc Emrick - The Voice of Hockey
Doc Emrick - The Voice of Hockey
A retrospective on the career of Doc Emrick featuring interviews of those who worked with him.
Doc Emrick - The Voice of Hockey 2021
The Mystery of The Handwritten Quran
The Mystery of The Handwritten Quran
In the mountains of Dagestan in the Russian Civil War era, some good and bad people are looking for a hidden treasure. The only problem is that the instructions on where to find it are encrypted in one handwritten copy of Quran, which ends up in the wrong hands.
The Mystery of The Handwritten Quran 1990
Angh
Angh
In 1960s rural India, a village chief and his son resist the pressure of conforming to the new world of Christianity.
Angh 2021
For My Right To Choose And Be Chosen
For My Right To Choose And Be Chosen
Panamanian women tell their struggle to overcome inequality and discrimination in the political and public sphere and for the right to universal suffrage which they obtained in 1946.
For My Right To Choose And Be Chosen 2021
Timur
Timur
Searching for stability and justice, Timur "The Lame" becomes a world conqueror in order to unify all people, nations, and tribes under one banner.
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Havfruen om bord
Havfruen om bord
Havfruen om bord 2021
The Beatles Unauthorized
The Beatles Unauthorized
A one-of-a-kind compilation offering a fascinating, entertaining, and surprising look at the Fab Four with rare newsreel footage, candid and revealing interviews, and historic performances. Included are their first U.S. concert in Washington, D.C., never-before-seen highlights from the Hollywood Bowl, a rare uncensored interview filmed just before their very last concert, and live renditions of many hits.
The Beatles Unauthorized 1965
Fulano de Tal
Fulano de Tal
Fulano de Tal 1
Estos muros
Estos muros
In the mountains of Madrid, Spain, a railway track on an abandoned bridge and a poem erased from the wall of a ruined building reveal a deliberately silenced story: the system established by Franco's dictatorship after the civil war (1936-39) that allowed hundreds of companies to use thousands of convicted Republicans as slave labor.
Estos muros 2021
Newborn Sky: Women in the Democratic Army of Greece
Newborn Sky: Women in the Democratic Army of Greece
After the liberation of Athens from German occupation in 1944, a new era followed in Greece. Conflicts broke out between those who had fought against the Germans and those who had collaborated with them and the British Army. After the military defeat of the former, the signing of the Treaty of Varkiza signaled the start of the White Terror. Houses were set on fire, people were raped, beaten, murdered, imprisoned, and exiled. All this drove the persecuted men and women to take to the mountains, where they would form the cornerstone of the Democratic Army of Greece. In this documentary, the women fighters of the Democratic Army tell their stories. Women who were persecuted, women who consciously chose to fight, women who were conscripted to the cause, together they constitute the mosaic of experience of a civil war.
Newborn Sky: Women in the Democratic Army of Greece 2021
Saidjah & Adinda
Saidjah & Adinda
Saidjah wanted to marry Adinda, but poverty prevented him. Saidjah then decided to work in Batavia. Adinda is now alone in Lebak waiting for Saidjah to return.
Saidjah & Adinda 2021
Ravrambha
Ravrambha
Raav is a valiant soldier who also serves as a personal bodyguard for Maratha Army Commander in Chief Prataprao Gujar. Rambha is his childhood love, and when she is kidnapped, Raav saves her with his valour.
Ravrambha 2023
Tygyn Darkhan
Tygyn Darkhan
The film tells about a difficult period in the fate of the legendary ancestor of the Hangalass clan Tygyn Darkhan. At the turn of the century before the advent of the Russian Cossacks, he waged a difficult struggle to unite the tribes and clans that lived on the territory of modern Yakutia. The film is based on the eponymous work of Vasily Yakovlev-Dalan.
Tygyn Darkhan 2020
The Last Days of World War II
The Last Days of World War II
Chronicles the last days of WWII with original footage of the Allied advance in Europe, the final battles, and the after-effects of peace such as the Nuremberg Trials and the beginnings of the Cold War.
The Last Days of World War II 1995
LIZ
LIZ
An alien sent to study humans on Earth faces inhumanity when it stumbles upon a college party.
LIZ 2021
The Hunter
The Hunter
On a hot summer night in 1985 Greenwich Village, a young man, new to the city, leaves a gay bar with a flamboyant performance artist. What starts as a hot date soon uncovers much deeper layers of race, class, history, and disease.
The Hunter 2020
Chu Yuan
Chu Yuan
Chu Yuan was a patriotic poet and statesman in ancient China, born over 2000 years ago in the state of Ch'u of the "Warring States" Period, a period of transition from Slavery to Feudalism System. Ch'in, Ch'u, Chao, Wei, Yen, Han and Chi were the Seven States occupying various parts of China at incessant war of annexation with one another. Of the Seven States Ch'in grew most powerful. Vis-a-vis Ch'in's military pressure and Ch'u's political corruption, Chu Yuan advocated alliance with Chi to resist Ch'in abroad, and political reforms at home so as to unify whole China. Chu Yuan's political viewpoint met with sabotage by slave-owning aristocrat bloc, was unable to be carried out in Ch'u. Being so indignant he finally took his own life by jumping into the river. His poems "Li Sao" "Tien Wen" etc. in the development history of Chinese literature, shone with everlasting brilliance.
Chu Yuan 1975
The Peacemakers
The Peacemakers
Can this group of astronauts overcome their own prejudices and fears to accompany a scientist who has developed a miracle formula to grow food on any surface or climate, without water? They must travel to an mysterious planet to grow this food to save earth. Will the meteor strikes and slithering aliens stop them from completing their mission?
The Peacemakers 2020
The Blitz Days That Changed WWII
The Blitz Days That Changed WWII
The Blitz: Days that Changed WWII tells the story of one of the most pivotal six-month periods of the 20th century, beginning in August 1940 as Nazi Germany has conquered most of Western Europe. Britain now stands alone against Hitler’s Luftwaffe as it rains bombs on its cities, villages and ports. As they face daily bombardment and destruction along with threats of gas attacks and invasion, the people of Great Britain come together to make a heroic stand.
The Blitz Days That Changed WWII 2020
Sphulingo
Sphulingo
Sphulingo is an Bangladeshi film, directed by Tauquir Ahmed and is produced by Shopner Bangladesh Foundation. It feature Shamol Mawla, Pori Moni, Rawnak Hasan and Zakia Bari Momo in the lead roles.
Sphulingo 2021
Horace: Last Day of a Life
Horace: Last Day of a Life
Horace: Last Day of a Life is a retelling based on the true story of the dramatic final hours of Horace the Elk. To accurately depict Horace's life and death in a single day, vast research was conducted along with contact with the Harris Museum where Horace's bones remain.
Horace: Last Day of a Life 2023
Before the Dying of the Light
Before the Dying of the Light
An amazing journey back in time to Morocco in the seventies, through a colorful collage of jazz music, posters and magazine covers, archive footage and cartoons; from the perspective of the artists, many of whom ended up in jail or disappeared without a trace under the tyranny of King Hassan II.
Before the Dying of the Light 2020
Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry
Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry is a remarkable and unique work of art that has survived for almost 1,000 years. Made in the 11th century, it tells the story of William of Normandy’s claim to the English throne, culminating in the Norman invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings. At nearly 70 metres in length, the Bayeux Tapestry includes 623 characters, hundreds of animals and a wide diversity of scenes depicting everyday life and epic events. It is a treasure trove of information, offering an extraordinary insight into a pivotal moment in history.
Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry 2022
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
Could a nineteen-year-old girl change the course of history simply by faith? From ordinary farm girl to extraordinary hero, the life of Joan of Arc was one of conviction and courage. Fifteenth-century France was devastated by an ongoing war in which women did not fight. Yet Joan heeded the counsel of angels and transformed into a military leader, something her country needed but many feared. In this BYUtv original special, discover the stalwart spirit, military prowess, and enduring influence of Joan of Arc.
Joan of Arc 2015