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Detective Dee: The Lost Gold
Detective Dee: The Lost Gold
A murder and gold theft case leads Di Renjie to a deeper conspiracy when traces of Blood Vine, the Pink Butterfly and the Tree Demon are found at the crime scene. Dee is pestered by Shen Jun Yao, a flower girl, and runs into Jiang Hanshuang, a female officer who is investigating the murder of the Tree Demon and the gold theft.
Detective Dee: The Lost Gold 2018
Cry of the Sky
Cry of the Sky
Cry of the Sky is loosely about events that led to the collapse of the first Kurdish revolution of 1961 and the chaotic recovery of the resistance movement during the second half of the 1970s. The storyline takes its point of departure from the current situation in the Kurdistan region with the ongoing war between the Peshmerga and a new foe, the Islamic State (ISIS/Daesh).
Cry of the Sky 2018
La Police de Vichy
La Police de Vichy
La Police de Vichy 2018
Rita, the documentary
Rita, the documentary
An aesthetic and politic portrait of Mexico ́s 90s decade through the biography of artist Rita Guerrero (1964-2011), who developed in different fields, mostly music and theater. She was the vocalist of Santa Sabina, a rock band in which she was the most remarkable figure. She committed herself to different social movements such as the Zapatista Army Movement (EZLN) and the Electoral Left. She died at 46 from breast cancer. Her voice and music left a mark on a generation.
Rita, the documentary 2018
Dubček
Dubček
Exactly fifty years ago, social changes took place in the Czechoslovakia, which markedly shaped their history, the so-called Prague Spring was in full swing. They were headed by Alexander Dubček, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, a popular politician who began to implement the idea of ​​"socialism with a human face". All hopes for change ended the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops and the strong intervention of the then General Secretary of the CPSU UV Leonid Brezhnev. The historical drama Dubček deals with the key moments of the year 1968, which fundamentally influenced not only the life of the then very popular politician, but also the life in the whole country. The whole story is conceived as a retrospective that begins and ends on the day of Alexander Dubček's fateful journey to Prague in 1992, during which he commemorates the breakthrough events of his life.
Dubček 2018
The Traitor
The Traitor
1971, Odessa Film Studio. The KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of just finished movie about the events of Ukraine’s 1920s "civil war" of a young director in line with the Party’s view on the historical events. This re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, which consequently realizes she must protect the director’s vision and the safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet occupation.
The Traitor 2018
Moonrise Over Egypt
Moonrise Over Egypt
In 1947, the Indonesian first diplomatic mission arrived in Cairo without passport, to gain recognition over Indonesian sovereignty. They were having series of tackles, which putting the fate of Egypt and Indonesia in the hands of traitor.
Moonrise Over Egypt 2018
Kardeşim İçin: Der'a
Kardeşim İçin: Der'a
Kardeşim İçin: Der'a 2018
9/11: Escape from the Towers
9/11: Escape from the Towers
Each World Trade Center tower consisted of 110 floors. Each floor has a story. In this two-hour special, survivors from two of those floors, many speaking publicly for the first time, tell their stories. Focusing on one floor in the North Tower and one in the South, this film will provide a never-before-achieved intimacy with what it was really like to be inside the Twin Towers on 9/11.
9/11: Escape from the Towers 2018
The Marshal's Two Executions
The Marshal's Two Executions
The film confronts two different views of the execution of General Ion Antonescu, Romania's leader during the Second World War.
The Marshal's Two Executions 2018
Honor: The Legacy of Jose Abad Santos
Honor: The Legacy of Jose Abad Santos
The story of Jose Abad Santos is weaved together through interviews with descendants, top World War 2 Philippine historians, official documents, and excerpts from articles written by Abad Santos' son, Pepito, who was with his father through his last days.
Honor: The Legacy of Jose Abad Santos 2018
Berlin's Treasure Trove
Berlin's Treasure Trove
Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large number of art pieces from all over the globe, from the Stone Age to the present day. A walk through their great institutions to marvel at their masterpieces.
Berlin's Treasure Trove 2018
More Than Words
More Than Words
TV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal communication, primarily movements, gestures and ways of expression, but also the causes and roots of their origin. The series also explores the most interesting changes in the development of different cultures, including tattooing, scarring and body painting. Series also deal with the language of deaf and blind people, different universal languages, laughter, whistling and other peripheral phenomena associated with non-verbal communication. It also answers the questions does politicians think what they say, do suspects lie to the police or the court and how their body language reveals them..
More Than Words 2018
Being Napoleon
Being Napoleon
On June 18, 1815, several European armies, commanded by the British Duke of Wellington, faced for the last time the deposed French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in the fields of Belgium. Two hundred years later, thousands of people recreate the epic clash between two titans that history knows as the Battle of Waterloo.
Being Napoleon 2018
Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone!
Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone!
Legendary Italian writer and director talks about his career and, in particular, three films he directed: Acqua e Sapone; Maledetto il giorno che ti ho incontrato; Io, Loro e Lara, while many of his colleagues and friends wish him a happy birthday for his 68th birthday.
Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone! 2018
In Between Takes
In Between Takes
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man a video camera, and you will have a film in twenty years. Home videos are even funnier here as the cameraman – the director’s own father – was unaware he was filming.
In Between Takes 2018
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
Válek
Válek
Válek 2018
The Red Tree
The Red Tree
A powerful and poetic short film that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini’s Fascist regime.
The Red Tree 2018
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible
"Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I knew. He has disappeared since. Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking in the street, but I wasn’t sure it was him. Parts of his face were torn off, but his features had remained unchanged since the incident. Yet something was different, as if he wasn’t the same man” (Ghassan Halwani).
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible 2018
De Gaulle et Pompidou : jusqu'à la rupture
De Gaulle et Pompidou : jusqu'à la rupture
De Gaulle et Pompidou : jusqu'à la rupture 2018
Despejadas
Despejadas
Despejadas 2018
Jackie and Lee: A Tale of Two Sisters
Jackie and Lee: A Tale of Two Sisters
The complex relationship between Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her sister, Lee Radziwill, and their extravagant lives that masked the underlying sibling rivalry.
Jackie and Lee: A Tale of Two Sisters 2018
The Story of Jonah-A Lesson in Courage and Mercy
The Story of Jonah-A Lesson in Courage and Mercy
The Story of Jonah-A Lesson in Courage and Mercy 2018
2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action
2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action
The year’s most spectacular Live Action short films.
2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action 2018
Zwinglis Erbe
Zwinglis Erbe
A.D. 1519: When Huldrych Zwingli begins preaching as a priest in Zurich, the plague affects him. Looking death in the face, God's Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged and strengthened, he turns Zurich upside down with the Bible in his hand. However, resistance - even from the closest circle of friends - increases more and more.
Zwinglis Erbe 2018
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
The historic story of Eugene Victor Debs, an American Socialist leader and union organizer during the Progressive era, 1900 to 192, who ran for US President on the Socialist Party ticket (SPA) five times, even once while he was in prison for speaking out against the US involvement in World War 1.
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs 2018
The Head of Gumercindo Saraiva
The Head of Gumercindo Saraiva
A fiction based on true events, which happened at the end of the Federalist Revolution in 1895, in the south of Brazil. When Gumercindo Saraiva was killed in an ambush and buried at graveyard at some roadside, the legalists discovered it, unburied the body, and cut its head off so it would be taken to the Governor as a war trophy. Major Ramiro de Oliveira and two men were chosen for the unusual task. The film tells the saga of the Capitan Franciso Saraiva, son of Gumercindo, and his team of five riders in the attempt to recover his father's head. The moments of approximation and distancing between the pursued and the pursuers, the confrontation and the conflicts, the duels that happened on both sides until the final encounter, when there are only Ramiro and Francisco left standing; all these events are thoroughly narrated in the film. The lessons learned in the journey blossom at end and both men, due to everything they went through, decide for an honorable outcome for them both.
The Head of Gumercindo Saraiva 2018
Farzand
Farzand
Maharashtra has a very well known history and in that, the period of Shivaji Maharaj is of pride to us all. Adilshah from Bijapur was the strongest enemy of Shivaji Maharaj and the ruler of Konkan and Maharashtra. Shivaji established Swaraj in these parts and set the people free from Adilshah's slavery. And hence, he became Shivaji's biggest enemy. Adilshah later, declared a war against Shivaji Maharaj and captured the Panhala fort. After several attempts for recapturing the fort, Shivaji Maharaj failed. Adilshah, being a tricky politician, appointed the brutal Beshakh Khan as the guardian of the fort. The illegal and immoral acts of Beshakh Khan was against Swaraj and a hurdle for the coronation of Shivaji Maharaj. To stop him and capture the fort of Panhala was now an issue of prestige for Shivaji Maharaj. Farzand is the movie about Shivaji Maharaj's 60 great warriors lead by Kondaji Farzand, which portrays their great achievements in capturing Panhala fort.
Farzand 2018
The Frozen Fire
The Frozen Fire
Some are called heroes, some villains. Histories get buried and the dead are resurrected. Sometimes a thread of humanity gets drawn from blurred stories. It could clothe the world one day or stitch together a fallen flag.
The Frozen Fire 2018
Hannibal's Elephant Army: The New Evidence
Hannibal's Elephant Army: The New Evidence
Hannibal is one of the most famous warlords in history. To invade Rome, he crossed the Alps in just 16 days with 30,000 men, horses and an elephant army. How was that possible? Investigators are now looking for evidence of Hannibal's mythical warfare.
Hannibal's Elephant Army: The New Evidence 2018
Bécquer and the Witches
Bécquer and the Witches
In 1864, the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-70), suffering from health problems, retires to the monastery of Veruela. Far from the noise and worldly activity of the capital, he immerses himself in the landscape of the mysterious Moncayo mountain. There, he discovers a new world full of legends that converge in a small village located at the foot of the mountain: Trasmoz, the Village of the Witches, the only officially cursed village in Spain.
Bécquer and the Witches 2018
Cantares de una revolución
Cantares de una revolución
Cantares de una revolución 2018
The Bubble
The Bubble
Diving deep into the true causes of the Great Recession, the financial crisis of the 2010s, renowned economists, investors and business leaders explain what America is facing if we don't learn from our past mistakes. Is the economy really improving or are we just blowing up another Bubble?
The Bubble 2018
The Tigers of Guangdong
The Tigers of Guangdong
The Tigers of Guangdong 2018
The Sixth Post
The Sixth Post
Against the backdrop of a conflict between former friends, and now a soldier and a prisoner, events break out that will make them make a difficult choice. This choice changed the history and attitude to true heroism.
The Sixth Post 2018
MisLead: America's Secret Epidemic
MisLead: America's Secret Epidemic
1 in 3 children is impacted by this environmental illness- 22,000,000 U.S. children today, but chances are they've never even tested your child. It conservatively costs the U.S. $100 billion annually, however a carefully crafted political campaign has made you think it's not your problem. Think again.
MisLead: America's Secret Epidemic 2018
WW2 - OverSimplified
WW2 - OverSimplified
OverSimplified’s comedy documentary on World War 2, parts 1 & 2
WW2 - OverSimplified 2018
31 de março, Brazil
31 de março, Brazil
Where the winds of oblivion blow, the return of times of horror is always possible.
31 de março, Brazil 2018
The War That Changed The English Language - OverSimplified
The War That Changed The English Language - OverSimplified
OverSimplified’s comedy documentary on Vikings in the middle ages.
The War That Changed The English Language - OverSimplified 2018