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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
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
Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI
Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI
An amazing discovery has been made beneath a farm field in Northern France: a vast underground city where World War I soldiers, on both sides of the conflict, took refuge a century ago. Even more remarkable, it is one of hundreds of buried havens set up close to a 45-mile stretch of the Western Front. Follow American explorer and photographer Jeff Gusky as he documents one of these long forgotten shelters, and witness his attempts to connect the names of the American soldiers etched into the limestone walls to their living descendants.
Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI 2017
The Haunting of Deiana Wood
The Haunting of Deiana Wood
Two young gay friends, Luke and Toby, go camping in local beauty spot Deiana Wood. As darkness falls, they share ghostly bedtime stories about Deiana Wood's blood-soaked history.
The Haunting of Deiana Wood 2017
DEADLINE
DEADLINE
Documentary on death with participation of philosophers, scientists and artists. Guest star, alexis karpouzos.
DEADLINE 2017
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
Mélenchon, la campagne d'un insoumis
Mélenchon, la campagne d'un insoumis
Mélenchon, la campagne d'un insoumis 2017
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
Third movie in the series.
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948. 2017
Habit & Armour
Habit & Armour
History of Teutonic Order and Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.
Habit & Armour 2017
Exodus 1826
Exodus 1826
Exodus 1826 2017
Nero's Sunken City
Nero's Sunken City
Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, the ancient Roman city of Baiae. From the first century to the third century AD, Baiae was the exclusive playground for the rich and powerful among Rome’s elite. What made Baiae such a special place? What really went on there? And why did it disappear?
Nero's Sunken City 2017
Treaty of Rome
Treaty of Rome
From Jean Monnet's idea of a transnational European army to the abolition of customs borders, seven years behind the scenes towards the Treaty of Rome. A docu-fiction "embedded" in the great and small histories of Europe.
Treaty of Rome 2017
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song
Elton John on his extraordinary career and his songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin.
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song 2017
"Dream Factory" for Comrade Stalin
A documentary study of the circumstances and course of the drama that played out in the second half of the 30s around the project of creating "Soviet Hollywood" in the USSR - the center of the film industry in the image and likeness of the American "dream factory". Dramas in which human characters, ideological conflicts, and the spirit of the era were vividly manifested…
"Dream Factory" for Comrade Stalin 2017
Aga
Aga
Aga is a story about a Kurdish child who escaped the Ba'ath regime during the Anfal of his family and village. Aga is also a reminder of the suffering that Kurds have suffered at the hands of their enemies.
Aga 2017
Зүрхний хилэн
Зүрхний хилэн
Зүрхний хилэн 2017
Morazán
Morazán
Francisco Morázan has been in Costa Rica for five months where he has been appointed Provisional Chief of State. It has called for elections to install a National Constituent Assembly, which should be a legal structure to the Costa Rican state. The Assembly has decreed the validity of the constitution of 1825, the same as that of the Central American Federation; It has declared the accession of Costa Rica to the Republic of Central America. Two months later Francisco Morazán is shot one afternoon on September 15, 1842.
Morazán 2017
La planta insolente
La planta insolente
The film reproduces the historical moment when Cipriano Castro, then president of Venezuela, proclaimed: "The insolent plant of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of the fatherland!" While the coasts were invaded by imperial forces in 1902.
La planta insolente 2017
Out North: MNLGBTQ History
Out North: MNLGBTQ History
This film explores the untold past of Minnesota’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, and celebrates the strides the state has made since the gay liberation movement began in the 1970s. The film also reveals some of the important ways that Minnesota has played a significant role in the national movement for LGBTQ equality, from the first legal challenge to marriage equality, the first gay student body president, and more.
Out North: MNLGBTQ History 2017
The Cage
The Cage
Based on 1947's book 'Ekoi Namer Golpo' by Hasan azizul Haque.
The Cage 2017
Memoria de la sangre
Memoria de la sangre
Memoria de la sangre 2017
Algérie, Les Deux Soldats
Algérie, Les Deux Soldats
Algérie, Les Deux Soldats 2017
Ghostbrothers
Ghostbrothers
How do you know that someone is a ghost? You can't see his legs.
Ghostbrothers 2017
The Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan
A stop motion film based on the biblical parable about the good Samaritan.
The Good Samaritan 2017
Resident Forever
Resident Forever
How do these people live, how do they endure the confinement and pain of the country's borders ? Under the splendor of the landscapes we can feel the constant threat of a cold war In the heart of Caucasus. The villagers have learned to live with the sound of reports, while knowing that the next bullet may be for them. Scenes from ordinary life, in a country where the threat of war may never be forgotten: yet a feeling of life prevails: resident forever, forever. This film talk about the current state of the world and humanity with respect to imposed violence, in a set of border areas.
Resident Forever 2017
Kobzar 2015
Kobzar 2015
In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.
Kobzar 2015 2017
Love Letter Rescue Squad
Love Letter Rescue Squad
"Our history was disappearing as quickly as we were making it." With that realization, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. More than 40 years later, Deb must consider the future of the collection.
Love Letter Rescue Squad 2017
Football War - OverSimplified
Football War - OverSimplified
OverSimplified’s comedy documentary on the Football War
Football War - OverSimplified 2017
A Bastard Child
A Bastard Child
In 1909, in an undemocratic Sweden, a bastard child is born and given the name of Hervor. Her mother is unmarried, due to which she is called a "whore' and is driven from her home. Hervor grows up at shelters and orphanages, unwanted, rejected by society. As an adult she spends her life struggling for social justice. In old age she tells us her story. Director Knutte Wester brings his grandmother's memories to life thought hand-painted animated images and has us witness someone being rejected in order to unite others. A story that all too often still repeating itself.
A Bastard Child 2017
The Porchlight Sessions
The Porchlight Sessions
A rare look at the inventiveness of the human spirit through reimagining the history of Bluegrass Music from Bill Monroe to today's musicians.
The Porchlight Sessions 2017
Adolf Hitler They Said I Was A Dreamer
Adolf Hitler They Said I Was A Dreamer
"It is necessary that I should die for my people, but my spirit will rise from the grave and the world will know I was right" - Adolf Hitler, April 1945
Adolf Hitler They Said I Was A Dreamer 2017
Der Geist der Befreiung – Das Ende des Dritten Reichs
Der Geist der Befreiung – Das Ende des Dritten Reichs
Der Geist der Befreiung – Das Ende des Dritten Reichs 2017
Grandma Loleng
Grandma Loleng
A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng’s landscape of memories, only to unearth her innermost secrets and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.
Grandma Loleng 2017
Calvin, Zwingli, and Brother Klaus
Calvin, Zwingli, and Brother Klaus
John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, and Brother Klaus (Niklaus von Flüe) were three very different men who shaped the Christian faith in Switzerland. With this docudrama, award-winning filmmaker Rainer Wälde celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and the 600th anniversary of the birth of Brother Klaus, Switzerland’s most famous saint.
Calvin, Zwingli, and Brother Klaus 2017
The Burnt Ship
The Burnt Ship
Documentary about the spectacular but little known Viking ship burial find in 1874 at Nordfjordeid, Norway.
The Burnt Ship 2017
The Falklands - OverSimplified
The Falklands - OverSimplified
OverSimplified’s comedy documentary on the wars of the Falklands
The Falklands - OverSimplified 2017
Angelito
Angelito
A short film about Antonio Luna’s aides-de-camp Jose and Manuel Bernal during the aftermath of Luna’s assassination.
Angelito 2017
Born with a Thunderstorm
Born with a Thunderstorm
The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century and his complete filmography. One segment documents the epic way directors attempted to bypass official censorship to show their movies out of the country.
Born with a Thunderstorm 2017
Hitler - Oversimplified
Hitler - Oversimplified
OverSimplified’s comedy documentary on Hitler’s life
Hitler - Oversimplified 2017
Aribert Heim, médecin du camp de Mauthausen
Aribert Heim, médecin du camp de Mauthausen
Aribert Heim, médecin du camp de Mauthausen 2017