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Tower To The People
Tower To The People
Nikola Tesla dreamed of sending free wireless energy from a mysterious tower and lab called Wardenclyffe. Deteriorating for decades, the remains of his great work were almost lost forever. Until a grateful world united to save them.
Tower To The People 2015
Chasing Red
Chasing Red
Everyone has heard of Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, yet so few know much about it. Even fewer know that there is an elite group of runners who brave dozens of bull runs each year, risking their life to run inches away from the sharp horns of the 1000+ pound ferocious animals they revere. Chasing Red is a character-driven documentary following 4 runners across the eight bull runs of a single fiesta in Pamplona. Braving through injury and looming risk of death, they embark on an endeavor that will shape their lives forever.
Chasing Red 2015
The Sex Changes That Made History
The Sex Changes That Made History
Sex reassignment surgery is now almost a commonplace procedure, but back in the early 20th century, it was seen as 'science fiction surgery'. When the news broke of a successful first attempt, it was a sensation. This is the gripping story of three extraordinary people: the world's first person to undergo a female to male transition; the former Spitfire pilot who became Britain's first to transition from male to female; and the daring advanced plastic surgeon who carried out these surgeries in the 1940s. Michael Dillon - previously named Laura - had persuaded the brilliant Sir Harold Gillies, the founding father of plastic surgery, to carry out the female-to-male operation that no surgeon in the world had ever attempted. Both then helped former race car driver and wartime pilot Robert Cowell undertake their own transition.
The Sex Changes That Made History 2015
Inside the Court of Henry VIII
Inside the Court of Henry VIII
Henry VIII is the most iconic king of English history. Part medieval tyrant, part renaissance prince, he ruled over his people as no king of England had ever done before. He took a country salvaged by his father from the wreck of civil war and set over it a single, sovereign ruler. By the end of his reign the power of the Tudor.
Inside the Court of Henry VIII 2015
Friend
Friend
The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.
Friend 2015
Stalin's Daughter
Stalin's Daughter
A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her childhood, she remained at the center of power and was her father's favorite child. However, her life was overshadowed by death and violence. Her mother and brother died, family members were murdered, and her partner was exiled by Stalin. The Iron Curtain was an obstacle in her family dream. This documentary shows for the first time interviews with friends and relatives, exclusive photos and documentation, as well as the last and never broadcast interview with Alliloejeva.
Stalin's Daughter 2015
Hikawa Maru Monogatari
Hikawa Maru Monogatari
Hirayama Jirou has lost his mother in the Great Kanto Earthquake and now runs a soba stall with his father. He decides to join the crew of the famous ocean liner Hikawa Maru and finds work cooking in the ship's galley. Through his eyes, the film explores the ship's 85-year history.
Hikawa Maru Monogatari 2015
Tsamo
Tsamo
In the 1860’s Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer Simon buys a Tlingit girl named Tsamo and decides to bring her to Finland. The child, Tsamo, is baptized and Simon starts to teach her European manners. Tsamo thinks she’s married to Simon and acts accordingly, but when Simon marries a lady of his own age and class, she gets confused. Simon is forced to send the girl away and the battle over Tsamo’s identity takes complicated turns.
Tsamo 2015
The Foundation
The Foundation
A portrait of a site and its multiple layers of existence, The Foundation takes place around Tom of Finland’s Foundation in Los Angeles, exploring the multiple layers, sub-communities, interpersonal relations, and erotic and artistic imaginaries that this site hosts, promotes, and projects.
The Foundation 2015
The New Tale of Genji / Melodia
The New Tale of Genji / Melodia
-- The Tale of Genji -- Hikaru Genji was born to Kiritsubotei when he was Emperor, as the second imperial Prince. Since childhood, he has harbored feelings of love for Fujitsubo-no-Nyogo, the Empress of Kiritsubotei. -- Melodia -- This performance comprises a number of musical pieces played to passionate as well as beautiful melodies and rhythms that generate excitement. They all are part of passionate and beautiful tunes that brim with love, dreams, hopes, passion, sorrow and an energy that knows no bounds.
The New Tale of Genji / Melodia 2015
Sembene!
Sembene!
Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.
Sembene! 2015
Censored Voices
Censored Voices
The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking - a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David to Goliath. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing the kibbutzniks to publish only a fragment of the conversations. 'Censored Voices' reveals the original recordings for the first time.
Censored Voices 2015
Shout Gladi Gladi
Shout Gladi Gladi
Shout Gladi Gladi is a documentary about hope. It tells the story of one woman's quest to cure fistula and save mother's lives in Africa. Shot in Malawi and Sierra Leone (just prior to the Ebola crisis) this is an intense portrait of the people suffering from fistula and the struggle of those who are not only trying to fix this condition but curtail it through better maternal health care. In addition, it is about women's empowerment, specifically through a radical device from BBOXX, a solar powered generator that provides the women not only with electricity in a region where there is none but also as a means to make money by charging cell phones.
Shout Gladi Gladi 2015
Tut
Tut
Explores the drama of power, political back-stabbing, war and murder and chronicles King Tut's rise to glory, his efforts to rule a chaotic empire and the enigma surrounding his death.
Tut 2015
Show Me a Hero
Show Me a Hero
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.
Show Me a Hero 2015
Sons of Liberty
Sons of Liberty
The story of a group of very different men fighting in the American Colonies for freedom, and how they will shape the future for the United States of America.
Sons of Liberty 2015
Mazar Sharif
Mazar Sharif
An Iranian diplomat who miraculously survived Taliban's raid on the Iranian consulate in Mazar E Sharif (Afghanistan) narrates his 19 days of hide and escape to reach Iran's borders meanwhile on the other side, the Iranian troops are preparing for retaliation.
Mazar Sharif 2015
Boiling Pot
Boiling Pot
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups.
Boiling Pot 2015
La maison de verre
La maison de verre
La maison de verre 2015
Marooned
Marooned
Richard Parker is the lone remaining member of a Royal Observer Corps team, stationed deep underground, during an unidentified cataclysm. He spends his days battling with isolation, loneliness, fear of what waits above and his own memories.
Marooned 2015
Fred Pellerin : De peigne et de misère
Fred Pellerin : De peigne et de misère
In the census of the legendary Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, the barber is at the top of the list... The barber, Méo. He who held up shop on the main street for many years and who marked history with his curling iron. In the village, Méo watched over the general capillarity for a long time. To mess up your hair just right, it knew how to take head on all the proponents of the straight and monotonous parting. Genius bordered on madness. Or the opposite. I guess it doesn't matter. It held together. Show recorded at the Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne on February 15, 2015.
Fred Pellerin : De peigne et de misère 2015
Le Dernier Gaulois
Le Dernier Gaulois
Thanks to recent archaeological discoveries, this docudrama movie association and documentary footage to rediscover the "true face" of the Gaulle. On comments from Clovis Cornillac. In 52 BC, the fortress of Alesia, Apator, a Gallic leader, is exhausted after forty days of siege. His armies prepare to load against the Roman legions who circled.
Le Dernier Gaulois 2015
Les Évadés du troisième Reich
Les Évadés du troisième Reich
Les Évadés du troisième Reich 2015
C'était la génération Mitterrand
C'était la génération Mitterrand
C'était la génération Mitterrand 2015
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge 2015
Endurance: The Story of Ernest Shackleton
Endurance: The Story of Ernest Shackleton
When Ernest Shackleton is given the ship Endurance to reclaim the record for the furthest south expedition, his journey is cut short when his ship becomes trapped in the ice pack and begins to sink.
Endurance: The Story of Ernest Shackleton 2015
True Appaloosa
Prime Video
True Appaloosa
Horse breeder Scott Engstrom has been trying for years to prove that the Appaloosa, a rare American horse breed, came from Asia and not Spain. With only 109 true Appaloosas left in the world the question is vital. After spotting a horse uncannily like an Appaloosa on a TV show filmed in Kyrgyzstan, the fiery 69-year-old heads for central Asia.
True Appaloosa 2015
Lotfi
Lotfi
The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
Lotfi 2015
The Big Burn
The Big Burn
The dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910.
The Big Burn 2015
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
The Forgotten Plague
Prime Video
The Forgotten Plague
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits, social habits, economic development and public policy, TB and its impact are poorly understood.
The Forgotten Plague 2015
The Patagonian Bones
The Patagonian Bones
A group of Welsh settlers decided to emigrate to Argentine Patagonia in 1865. Among them, a woman named Catherine Roberts, her husband, and their three children. Aboard the ship Mimosa they arrived at the current Puerto Madryn, Chubut, on July 28, 1865. Catherine died on August 21 and was buried near the coast, but her traces were lost until 1995 when some bones were discovered by chance. Argentine scientists Silvia Dahinten, Julieta Gómez Otero and Fernando Coronato have been working for twenty years to determine if the remains found are those of Catherine. In 2015, the arrival in Puerto Madryn of a Welsh descendant of Catherine, and new scientific advances, allow us to confirm that the bones found in 1995 are those of Catherine.
The Patagonian Bones 2015
Capsule
Capsule
Zohri discovers a time capsule called Vision 2020 which was buried by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. He steals the time capsule but it ends up taking him back to the past, where he finds himself arriving at the era when the Malays are struggling to achieve independence. Zohri witnesses the admirable struggles and difficulties his ancestors go through and finally understands the true meaning of patriotism. Zohri`s adventures continue as he travels from one era to another while at the same time, he struggles to find his way back home.
Capsule 2015
Del Color de la Noche
Del Color de la Noche
An account of key events in the life of the late Dominican political leader José Francisco Peña Gómez.
Del Color de la Noche 2015
Shoah, les oubliés de l'histoire
Shoah, les oubliés de l'histoire
The implacable machine of Nazi destruction took away three million Jews in the USSR. Unveiling evidence filmed by the Soviets this shocking documentary reveals a hidden memory.
Shoah, les oubliés de l'histoire 2015
Hellstorm
Hellstorm
A documentary that tells the tale that the victors still do not want you to know. Learn the terrible truth about the rape, torture, slavery, and mass murder inflicted upon the German people by the Allied victors of World Word II.
Hellstorm 2015
The Battle of Canakkale
The Battle of Canakkale
Pilot Captain Salih Ekrem is a young air officer and one of the first Ottoman pilots.
The Battle of Canakkale 2015
Samurai Warrior Queens
Samurai Warrior Queens
The drama documentary tells the real life story of Samurai woman Takeko Nakano who in 1868 fights for her clans' independence in a final battle that marks the end of the Samurai era.
Samurai Warrior Queens 2015
Grozny Blues
Grozny Blues
«Grozny Blues» follows a few people around Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya where daily life is defined by political repression, constricting customs, forced Islamification and the failure to come to terms with recent history. The film revolves around four women who have been fighting for human rights under worsening conditions for many years but get more and more disillusioned with the situation in Putin’s Russia. The building where they work is also home to a Blues Club that is frequented by a group of young people. Having only vague memories of the Chechen wars in the 90s, they try to make sense of the strange things that are happening in their country. In linking the personal and intimate to the political, Nicola Bellucci shows in a dramatic and yet very poetic way what it means to live in a divided society that navigates a no-man’s land between war and peace, repression and freedom, archaic traditions and modern life.
Grozny Blues 2015
The Jewish Journey: America
The Jewish Journey: America
Jewish-American history has been rooted in an ever-changing “Old Country”. Interviews with top scholars in Jewish history, notable Jewish-American writers, and many immigrants themselves detail the varied stories of migration through the last five centuries, with a rarely explored look at the actual journeys to get here.
The Jewish Journey: America 2015