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Tzadik
Tzadik
In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.
Tzadik 2023
Caligula with Mary Beard
Caligula with Mary Beard
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41), nicknamed Caligula? Professor Mary Beard explains what is accurate and what is mythical in the historical accounts that portray him as an unbalanced despot. Was he a sadistic tyrant, as Roman historians have told, or perhaps the truth about him was manipulated because of political interests?
Caligula with Mary Beard 2013
Birth of an Empire
Birth of an Empire
1698-1709 - ten years from the life of Peter the Great, during which he laid the foundations of the future Russian Empire. From the return of the Great Embassy from Europe to the Battle of Poltava. After the signing of a peace treaty with Sweden in 1721, Russia officially became an empire, and Peter became the first Russian emperor.
Birth of an Empire 1
1923, Kanto Genocide
1923, Kanto Genocide
1923, Kanto Genocide 2024
The Message
The Message
In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
The Message 1976
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Lady Caroline Lamb 1973
Laboratory Greece
Laboratory Greece
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
Laboratory Greece 2019
The Happy Valley
The Happy Valley
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
The Happy Valley 1987
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973.
No, or the Vain Glory of Command 1990
Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau
Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau
Head of the famous pencil corporation tries to make his 16 year old granddaughter ready to take his place.
Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau 2019
The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali
The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali
After the First World War, the Allies occupy Istanbul. The protagonist, Yandim Ali is a rogue, discharged from the navy, who doesn't believe that the country can be saved, until he meets Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), who plans to start a resistance in Anatolia against the occupying Allies, as well as the collaborators of an Ottoman government, that exists only on paper.
The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali 2007
Rhino Season
Rhino Season
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
Rhino Season 2012
Samurai Shifters
Samurai Shifters
Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance of Genemon Takamura and Oran, Shunnosuke Katagiri carries out his mission.
Samurai Shifters 2019
An Irrepressible Woman
An Irrepressible Woman
1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They will survive together.
An Irrepressible Woman 2020
Come Into the Light
Come Into the Light
In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.
Come Into the Light 2005
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Never-before-heard trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine.
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony 2022
Women Is Losers
Women Is Losers
In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacles of being young and alone, she sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future that sets new precedents for the time.
Women Is Losers 2021
A Cross in the Desert
A Cross in the Desert
Pious girl Paraskeva became Saint after spending 40 years of her life in Jordan desert fighting temptations, sins and inner demons.
A Cross in the Desert 2022
Shaakuntalam
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Shaakuntalam
Shakuntala, daughter of Meneka and Rishi Vishwamitra lives in forest with her teacher, Rishi Kanva. In the forest she meets King Dushyant, falls in love with him and the two get married. After she has their baby (Prince Bharata), Dushyant leaves her in the forest with a promise to come back for her soon. However, due to a sage's curse, Dushyant forgets all about Shakuntala, until destiny brings them together again.
Shaakuntalam 2023
The Treasure : Love & Destiny
The Treasure : Love & Destiny
A sequel to The Treasure (Part 1) - Reality & Fantasy (2017) The movie resumes with the stories of Hatsheput in the Pharaonic era, Ali al-Zaibaq during the Ottoman era and Beshr al-Katatini, head of State Security Investigations Service, who faces new challenges in work and love, whilst pointing his son, Hassan, towards a treasure through his recorded will.
The Treasure : Love & Destiny 2019
The Assassination of Trotsky
The Assassination of Trotsky
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
The Assassination of Trotsky 1972
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
To celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force, Ewan and Colin McGregor take to the skies in some of the world's most iconic planes. These are the planes that were involved in aerial combat at every stage of the RAF's story, from the biplanes used in the early days of dogfighting in World War I to the beautiful Spitfire of the Battle of Britain, the plucky Lysander and on to mighty Vulcan nuclear bomber, as well as the Chinook helicopter and supersonic Typhoon that are still in service today. It is a story of amazing machines and epic battles, but above all it is the story of the men and women whose courage and ingenuity have been at the heart of the RAF for 100 years. On their journey Ewan and Colin meet an amazing cast of characters.
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor 2018
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile 2012
Route 60: The Biblical Highway
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Route 60: The Biblical Highway
Carving through the heart of the Promised Land is the Biblical spine of Israel, sometimes referred to as the “Path of the Patriarchs” and officially designated as “Route 60.” This trek is far more than a two-lane highway; it is a historic, sacred link to the roots of Judaism and Christianity and the stories of the Old and New Testaments. Follow world-changing diplomats David Friedman and Mike Pompeo as they venture down this sacred road, treading the very ground Abraham, Moses, Jacob, King David, and Jesus once walked. Discover the history, witness the healing, and realize the hope along Route 60, the Biblical Highway.
Route 60: The Biblical Highway 2023
The Conclave of Shadows
The Conclave of Shadows
The end of the world begins today and here.
The Conclave of Shadows 2024
The Lovers of Montparnasse
The Lovers of Montparnasse
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
The Lovers of Montparnasse 1958
The Legend of King Kong
The Legend of King Kong
You think you know Kong? Think again. Explore the wonders of Skull Island with over 30 interviews compiled by director Tom Grove. With a run time of 250 minutes, this docu-series goes into detail about every aspect of Kong's cinematic history.
The Legend of King Kong 2022
The Ashes
The Ashes
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
The Ashes 1965
Brigham Young
Brigham Young
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Brigham Young 1940
At Full Gallop
At Full Gallop
Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.
At Full Gallop 1996
Nicus's Stuff: The Complete Second Season
Nicus's Stuff: The Complete Second Season
Nicus strikes again with 25 more fits of whining that take him on more crazy adventures! From fighting demons on Mars to bringing down the Nintendo of an alternate reality where everyone looks like him, Nicus has had quite the year. However, after an encounter with the law during a trip to White Castle, Nicus is hunted down and forced to conquer a bad game.
Nicus's Stuff: The Complete Second Season 2023
Bones of the Buddha
Bones of the Buddha
Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels. It concerns a controversial Buddhist reliquary from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was released in May, 2013, and was broadcast in July 2013 in the US on PBS as part of the Secrets of the Dead series.
Bones of the Buddha 2013
The Dream of the Red Chamber
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.
The Dream of the Red Chamber 1977
Lumumba
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
Lumumba 2000
His Trust
His Trust
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.
His Trust 1911
Lady General Hua Mulan
Lady General Hua Mulan
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.
Lady General Hua Mulan 1964
Lope
Lope
A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theater world when a producer's beautiful daughter takes a shine to him. They embark on a passionate affair as his plays begin to win popular acclaim.
Lope 2010
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Japanese Empire seeks to eradicate the Korean language and identity. In retaliation, a small group of Korean patriots try to protect their language by compiling the first Korean language dictionary.
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission 2019
This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth
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This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth
For more than forty years, British journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent conflicts in the world, from Northern Ireland to the Middle East, always with his feet on the ground and a notebook in hand, travelling into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and sending reports to the media he works for with the ambition of catching the interest of an audience of millions.
This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth 2019
The Concert for New York City
The Concert for New York City
The Concert for New York City took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden. It was a celebration of the strength of New York and a thank-you to the heroic firefighters, police officers and rescue workers who saved tens of thousands of lives on September 11th. More than 6000 firefighters, police officers and rescue workers attended as guests.
The Concert for New York City 2001